NetBus Trojan: Familiarise Yourself With This Prankster.

Backdoors are not always meant for authorized usage, isn’t it? Specially when thieves enter? A very similar situation arises every time the name NetBus trojan comes to our mind. To know more, read on.

Remember, the last time your computer screen flickered without any cause of disturbance? Or the moment when the computer suddenly shut off in between an important transaction? How many of you have noticed that extra cursor hovering in your office desktop? Well, if all these are rare occurrences, then well, that is only normal. For, not many victims of NetBus trojans get warnings other than these! For those who are alert, these signs will give you all the reason to run that antivirus scan. And if you are lucky, you might just save those important files from being copied into a remote computer, in time!

What is NetBus?

Apparently, NetBus is a software for harmless remote controlling of computers, and lately, smartphones. An old player in hacker-onomics, NetBus has been a raging controversy ever since anti-virus programs detected them, or should we say, stopped detecting them. Yes, donot  be surprised when we say that leading antiviruses like Symantec, Norton and Panda do not enlist NetBus products as a threat to the computer. As a result,  your download goes on without any warning from the scanner antivirus citing presence of a threat. However, this backdoor called NetBus trojan has implications close to being termed as ‘dangerous’. No. DEADLY DANGEROUS.

To begin with, the unique and efficient client server system of this software starts running almost as soon as a NetBus file (patch) is downloaded into the victim’s computer. One harmless malware advertisement or an e-mail with a disguised link, and your computer gives in to the doings of this trojan. The setting up of the software is almost as simple as setting up the kettle on the heater for your morning tea. This makes NetBus trojan a popular player in the world of hackers. Once the internet protocol address of the victim’s computer is found, the hacker only connects to it, to be able to carry out different pranks. Worse, spy and c opy important activities or files save din your system.

What Can You Do To Avoid This?

Well, the golden rule definitely suggests that anything you download on your computer or smartphone needs to be from a reliable source. Remember, all those e-mails that have no text and supply only a link are not to be opened. These are most probably trojans waiting to invade your system’s security. Although a NetBus trojan does not corrupt multiple files like viruses do, they almost open your computer’s content and your activities in it, to a third party without any consent from your end. Therefore, download files only from reliable sites.

You must note here that leading antiviruses present in the computers do not enlist NetBus trojans as a threat. So,at the end of each day, you must run a thorough scan of your computer, whether you received a threat warning or not. Just remember that,you need to set the antivirus to scan ‘All Files’. Check for all files named NetBus and knowing them to be NetBus Trojans, delete them immediately.