A Trojan that tracks your activities. Reality or myth?

Question

Computer networks

Hello.
I heard recently from several people that there is such a Trojan that anyone can download and use to their advantage. You can throw this Trojan to your friend, and he, having launched it unnoticed, will put a "bug" on his hard drive, which will track everything he does on his computer, up to which sites he goes to, and what characters he prints in a text editor and other programs .
Is it really all that simple? And everyone has been using this Trojan for a long time, slipping it on their friends? In the same way, you can steal credit card data, since this file can read the keyboard. But I have a question. A user who decides to spy on other people by sending them a Trojan must also install it on his computer, otherwise how will he receive data. Are there many such brave men? After all, something can happen to his computer.
Is this a myth? Of course, I understand that the special services have been using such things for a long time, but can any gopnik now use this thing to his advantage?

Answer 1

You are probably talking about RAT (Remote Administration Tool) - these are really Trojans of this class. There are dozens of them - for example Dark Comet , Cybergate or jRAT , and all of them are really available to any student and are popular

Answer 2

This Trojan can be thrown off to your friend and he, having launched it quietly , ...

My brain just breaks when I try to imagine how, being in full health and sober memory, you can run something on your own machine quietly (and then quietly enter the administrator password to let the nasty things into the system). This is beyond my imagination. How then not to be afraid to walk in the park where dog droppings lie under the bushes, because you can swallow it unnoticed ?

Answer 3

There is such a thing, Mipko. Google it.