Trojan.Punad.A

Trojan.Punad.A is the latest Trojan infection causing only havoc and more havoc on unsuspecting computer systems!

Trojan.Punad.A is registered as an annoyance process. This means that the infection itself is quite harmless – but extremely annoying.

To determine if a process of its aliases: net.net and prun.exe is a threat or is a legitimate process often depends on the location of the same on the hard drive, and its digital signature.

Being a malicious infection, that comes bundled on a screen saver file; Trojan.Punad.A may appear on a computer system and display a mass of excessive pop-up and pop-under advertisements.

Due to this inundation of messages, the infected systems’ stability and performance may be severely compromised, and the system will reflect this instability accordingly.

The term Trojan refers to the fact this particular malware, Trojan.Punad.A is installed under deceptive pretences, infiltrating the user’s PC without their approval or knowledge.

The fact that Trojan.Punad.A can easily enter any PC system via security exploits and flaws, most times without the user’s interaction, means that it is that much easier for Trojan.Punad.A to enter the system and ensure the system’s security is immensely compromised.

Risks which may affect the PC’s system functions include: the opening of illicit network connections, the use of polymorphic tactics to self-mutate, the disabling of already installed security software, modification of system files, and not forgetting: the installation of additional malware.

The best way to ensure a computer system is safe, and in order to avoid any unneeded risks of damage to the computer system, is to advised to make use of a reliable and legitimate anti-spyware application, to remove Trojan.Punad.A and all its components from the infected computer system.