My introduction to trojan horses came last year as I tried to download a patch to one of my computer games. Instead of using the game’s website – which was obnoxiously slow – I haphazardly downloaded what appeared to be the patch from Limewire. I was impatient to play, and I paid for it. Instantly my screen was filled with pop-ups and a thousand different windows that couldn’t be closed. This trojan was designed to annoy and was relatively innocuous, considering that many are engineered to steal personal information or turn your computer into a disease-spreading zombie – not to mention give control of your machine to a basement-dwelling misanthrope. I’ve learned much about this type of malware since the Greeks fooled me. There is no “one way” to get rid of trojans, but rather many methods that work for specific infections.  Read my latest article to learn how to go about trojan removal, as well as what steps to take in preventing infection.