Here’s a look at some of the most common types of Trojan malware, including their names and what they do on your computer: Backdoor Trojan ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This Trojan can create a “backdoor” on your computer. It lets an attacker access your computer and control it. Your data can be downloaded by a third party and stolen. Or more malware can be uploaded to your device. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack Trojan ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This Trojan performs DDoS attacks. The idea is to take down a network by flooding it with traffic. That traffic comes from your infected computer and others. Downloader Trojan ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This Trojan targets your already-infected computer. It downloads and installs new versions of malicious programs. These can include Trojans and adware. Fake AV Trojan ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This Trojan behaves like antivirus software, but demands money from you to detect and remove threats, whether they’re real or fake. Game-thief Trojan ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The losers here may