Trojan Horse Definitions - Hooker

Hooker

Hooker is a Trojan Horse that Webroot Spy Sweeper is able to remove. Hooker acts like a Keystroke Logger because it is able to record anything that you type into your computer. This program is dangerous because it can be taking screen shots of your banking information, personal emails and anything else that you have on your computer. Once Hooker has recorded these items, it can send them to other computers who has users just waiting to get at your personal information.

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Most of the time, Hooker is installed by someone who has administrative access to your computer. This program generally runs in the background without you even knowing it is there. To delete Hooker, we recommend that you use Webroot Spy Sweeper. Webroot can delete the Hooker program as well as many others just like this one.

Updated: 01/29/2006
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