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  Trojan Horse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Trojan Horse is part of the myth of the Trojan War, as told in Virgil's Latin epic poem The Aeneid.
The Trojan Bell is an ancillary component to the myth; according to lore, it signaled the beginning of the assault on Troy.
The wooden horse from the recent film Troy is displayed on the seafront in the nearby town of Çanakkale.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trojan_Horse   (767 words)

  
 Trojan horse (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trojan horse programs cannot operate autonomously, in contrast to some other types of malware, like viruses or worms.
In practice, Trojan Horses in the wild often contain spying functions (such as a packet sniffer) or backdoor functions that allow a computer, unbeknownst to the owner, to be remotely controlled from the network, creating a "zombie computer".
A simple example of a trojan horse would be a program named "pr0n.jpg.exe" claiming to be a pornographic picture file from a website which, when run, instead begins erasing all the files on the computer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trojan_horse_(computing)   (1520 words)

  
 Wooden Horse, Greek Mythology Link.
That horse, Odysseus advised, was to be left abandoned in the plain, and the Achaean army should burn the tents and sail away to Tenedos (the island off the Troad), so that the Trojans, believing that the invaders were gone, should come to the deserted Achaean camp and find the horse.
Crouching beneath its shadow, as Odysseus said, a man should be left to tell the Trojans a single deceiving line: that the Achaeans had sailed home, and that the horse was their offering to Athena, to appease her wrath because of the theft of the Palladium, so that she should grant a safe return.
When the horse was ready, the Achaeans let the best among them hide inside it, burned their tents, and leaving only Sinon behind, sailed away either to Tenedos or to cape Sigeum where they were to wait for a signal from the same Sinon.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/WOODENHORSE.html   (2635 words)

  
 CERT Advisory CA-1999-02 Trojan Horses
Trojan horses rely on users to install them, or they can be installed by intruders who have gained unauthorized access by other means.
We have confirmed with the authors of util-linux that a Trojan horse was placed in the file util-linux-2.9g.tar.gz on at least one ftp server between January 22, 1999, and January 24, 1999.
In response to the distribution of this Trojan horse, the authors of util-linux have released util-linux-2.9h.tar.gz.
www.cert.org /advisories/CA-1999-02.html   (2446 words)

  
 Trojan horse - Simple English Wikipedia
A Trojan horse is something that looks like a good thing, but that has a hidden (not seen) purpose, usually bad.
The idea of the Trojan horse, something that looks 'okay' but that has something bad hidden inside, is used to describe a modern computer problem.
A trojan horse program might look at your private data or it might use your computer to send spam email.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trojan_horse   (356 words)

  
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Trojan Horse Version of TCP Wrappers We recently published "CA-99-01-Trojan-TCP-Wrappers," which said that some copies of the source code for the TCP Wrappers tool were modified by an intruder and contain a Trojan horse.
Additionally, a Trojan horse, depending on the actions it takes, may implicate your site as the source of an attack and may expose your organization to liability.
Often, collections of Trojan horses are distributed in toolkits that an intruder can use to compromise a system and conceal their activity after the compromise, e.g., a toolkit might include a Trojan horse version of ls which does not list files owned by the intruder.
staff.washington.edu /dittrich/misc/faqs/trojans.faq   (2948 words)

  
 Trojan Horse Attacks
According to legend, the Greeks won the Trojan war by hiding in a huge, hollow wooden horse to sneak into the fortified city of Troy.
In today's computer world, a Trojan horse is defined as a "malicious, security-breaking program that is disguised as something benign".
Trojans can be spread in the guise of literally ANYTHING people find desirable, such as a free game, movie, song, etc. Victims typically downloaded the trojan from a WWW or FTP archive, got it via peer-to-peer file exchange using IRC/instant messaging/Kazaa etc., or just carelessly opened some email attachment.
www.irchelp.org /irchelp/security/trojan.html   (1298 words)

  
 What is Trojan horse? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
Unlike viruses, Trojan horses do not replicate themselves but they can be just as destructive.
One of the most insidious types of Trojan horse is a program that claims to rid your computer of viruses but instead introduces viruses onto your computer.
But after the Trojans drag the horse inside their city walls, Greek soldiers sneak out of the horse's hollow belly and open the city gates, allowing their compatriots to pour in and capture Troy.
www.webopedia.com /TERM/T/Trojan_horse.html   (286 words)

  
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Trojan horse - a malicious program that pretends to be a benign application; a Trojan horse program purposefully does something the user does not expect.
Trojans are closely related to computer viruses, but they are not viruses since they do not replicate, but they are potentially more dangerous.
Trojan horse programs can be used to take complete control of your PC by an unauthorised third party.
www.2privacy.com /www/viruses/trojan-horses.html   (722 words)

  
 Trojan Horse - History for Kids!
Neither the Greeks nor the Trojans seemed to be able to win, until one of the Greek kings, Odysseus of Ithaca, had an idea.
They left it at the temple of Athena, and then the Trojans had a big party to celebrate the end of the war.
All the Trojan men were killed, and all the women and children were taken back to Greece as slaves.
www.historyforkids.org /learn/greeks/religion/myths/trojanhorse.htm   (498 words)

  
 Define Trojan horse - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: Trojan
In computers, a Trojan horse is a program in which malicious or harmful code is contained inside apparently harmless programming or data in such a way that it can get control and do its chosen form of damage, such as ruining the file allocation table on your hard disk.
In one celebrated case, a Trojan horse was a program that was supposed to find and destroy computer viruses.
A Trojan horse may be widely redistributed as part of a computer virus.
searchsecurity.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci213221,00.html   (248 words)

  
 Trojan Horse (legend) - MSN Encarta
Trojan Horse (legend), in Greek legend, a huge, hollow, wooden horse used by the attacking Greeks to gain entrance to the city of Troy, thus ending the Trojan War.
They sailed away and left the horse, filled with armed warriors, on the shore.
Sinon, a Greek spy, persuaded the Trojans to take the horse into the city, convincing them that to do so would mysteriously make Troy invulnerable.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761556457   (142 words)

  
 Trojan-Horses
Trojan-horses, or Trojans for short, get their name from the mythical wooden horse that the Greeks gave to the city of Troy.
Obviously, the vectors that sneak Trojans in are not much different from the vectors that deliver viruses, but Trojans have a different objective.
Trojans can be used to destroy any or all of the files on your hard drive.
cybercoyote.org /security/av-trojan.htm   (726 words)

  
 FAQ :: Trojans FAQ
Trojan Horses pose one of the most significant threats to the Windows OS, thus exposing sensitive information to malicious attackers, as well as providing them with full access to the computer, which often results in further illegal activities done via the infected computer.
The trojan has borrowed it's name from the old mythical story about how the Greeks gave their enemy a huge wooden horse as a gift, but after the enemy accepted it, during the night the Greek soldiers crept out of the horse and conquered the city.
Most trojans come in two parts, a Client, and a Server, but there are exceptions where the trojan does not need a Client, as it's able to automatically do what it was intended to do (stealing passwords, business data etc.), without any intervention from the attacker.
www.windowsecurity.com /faqs/Trojans   (7258 words)

  
 Simply Super Software - Trojan Remover
Trojan Remover was written to aid in the removal of Trojan Horses and Internet Worms when standard anti-virus software has either failed to detect the problem or is unable to effectively eliminate it.
The majority of Virus and Trojan Scanners are well able to detect malicious Trojan Horses and Internet Worms but are not always very efficient in removing them once they have been triggered.
Trojan Remover was written specifically to carry out such a removal without the user having to manually edit system files, including the Registry.
www.simplysup.com /tremover   (164 words)

  
 Trojan Horse. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
In classical mythology, a large, hollow horse made of wood used by the Greeks to win the Trojan War.
They anchored their ships just out of sight of Troy and left a man behind to say that the goddess Athena would be pleased if the Trojans brought the horse inside the city and honored it.
The Trojans took the bait, against the advice of Cassandra and Laocoon.
www.bartleby.com /59/2/trojanhorse.html   (237 words)

  
 Trojan Horse - Hotword Scandal
The Win32.Hotword.Lip Trojan horse is actually a package containing an "envelope" and a "payload" in the form of a spying application crafted and sent specifically to each target.
The Trojan was mostly sent on CD from a sender that appeared familiar or not suspicious to the recipient.
If a Trojan is installed locally on a PC without the files going through the gateway or mail server (from a CD, for example) other systems need to be in place, both at the desktop and at the gateway, to inspect outgoing traffic.
www.esafe.com /esafe/trojan-horse.asp   (1242 words)

  
 The home of Spybot-S&D!
A trojan is a program that has gotten onto your machine without your knowledge and contains malicious code, that would for example allows persons using another computer to connect to yours over a network.
Typical trojans are open to anyone trying to connect (any person on your local network or even the internet).
Special trojans are designed to make you machine accessible just to the person who infected your computer with the trojan.
www.safer-networking.org /en/dictionary/trojanhorse.html   (229 words)

  
 History of the Trojan War
When the Trojans came to marvel at the huge creation, Sinon pretended to be angry with the Greeks, stating that they had deserted him.
He assured the Trojans that the wooden horse was safe and would bring luck to the Trojans.
The Trojans celebrated what they thought was their victory, and dragged the wooden horse into Troy.
www.stanford.edu /~plomio/history.html   (1211 words)

  
 Free online Trojan Scanner - Scan your system for Trojans
A Trojan is a program that enters your computer undetected, giving the attacker who planted the Trojan unrestricted access to the data stored on your computer.
Trojans can transmit credit card information and other confidential data in the background.
Trojans are often not caught by virus scanning engines, because these are focused on viruses, not Trojans.
www.trojanscan.com   (278 words)

  
 Trojan Horse
The Wooden Horse was taken into the city, Troy fell, slaughter and looting followed.
Poseidon's trident makes the thorax of Laocoon, the bottom is a dolphin's fin and a bull's head whose right horn is the tale of a snake in the shape of a lightening bolt from the stormy sea which bore the spiteful reptiles.
The horse becomes the dreadful serpents who give a Laocoonian death to their wicked rider.
natson.org /id84.htm   (188 words)

  
 PCWorld.com - Mobile Trojan Horse Trots Onto PCs
Security researchers have reported the first sightings of a new Trojan horse program that masquerades as pirated software for mobile phones and attempts to infect PCs via the phone's memory card.
Trojan horse malware gets installed on a device by masquerading as some other type of software.
In this case, the Trojan horse appears to be a pirated version of a mobile phone game that users can download from the Web, Hypponen says.
www.pcworld.com /resource/article/0,aid,122658,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp   (518 words)

  
 The Trojan Horse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Trojan war had raged on for many years, and there seemed to be no end to it in sight.
A few of the men hid themselves in a huge hollow wooden horse, now known as the Trojan Horse, and the rest packed up into their ship and left, and one Greek, named Sinon, went into Troy as a spy.
The Trojans thought the Greeks had surrendered, and were persuaded by Sinon to bring the horse into the city as a victory trophy.
www.bpcweb.net /dept/history/8ancient/trojanwar.htm   (256 words)

  
 Trojan Horse
They left behind a huge wooden horse, in which a number of Greek heroes, among whom Odysseus, had hidden themselves.
The spy Sinon convinced the Trojans, despite the warnings of Laocoon, to move the horse inside the city as a war trophy.
In the following night, the Greeks left the wooden horse and attacked the unsuspecting and celebrating Trojans, and finally conquered Troy.
www.pantheon.org /articles/t/trojan_horse.html   (96 words)

  
 CNN.com - Technology - Palm gets hit with first Trojan horse - August 29, 2000
A Trojan horse is a malicious program that appears to be legitimate, which is often attached to free gaming software.
Trojan horses can locate password information, make systems more susceptible to future entry, or sabotage data on a user's hard disk.
Trojan horses typically mimic legitimate programs but do not replicate themselves.
archives.cnn.com /2000/TECH/computing/08/29/palm.trojan.idg   (609 words)

  
 Faisal's Trojan Horse
And indeed, there are those who climbed onto the horse and are [now] inside [the PA territory] whether they supported the Oslo Accords or not.
Don't stay inside the horse and don't waist time and energy while you are inside the horse arguing whether this was a good horse or not.
Now that we all came out of the horse, I ask of you and of all journalists to lay aside all the analyses of past events, all the old disputes, and judge people on the basis of what they are actually doing now...
www.aish.com /jewishissues/middleeast/Faisals_Trojan_Horse.asp   (1881 words)

  
 Trojan horse
Trojan horse programs are named for the giant wooden horse that concealed Greek soldiers who used it to invade the ancient city of Troy.
Trojans are allso called RAT (remote access trojan, or remote access trapdoor) Like that famous trick, a Trojan horse program conceals hidden programming.
The hidden function may just be a joke, or something annoying, but vandals often use Trojan horse programs to destroy other people's data, knowing that some people will run any program that has an interesting file name, or promises to perform a useful function.
www.bullguard.com /antivirus/trojans.aspx   (244 words)

  
 Trojan Horse or Virus?
The trojan's contents could also be a virus or worm, which then spread the damage.
It's a trojan because it pretends to be a love letter when it is really a harmful program.
With the recent proliferation of trojans which install a backdoor program, however, a whole new market has sprung up in "personal firewalls" which are programs that run on your PC and can block communications from some backdoor programs.
www.irchelp.org /irchelp/security/trojanterms.html   (685 words)

  
 The Trojan Horse
The Trojan Horse has been a cornerstone of the Bloomington community since 1978.
A sense of community is also very important to the Trojan Horse.
The Trojan Horse participated in the“Save the Courthouse” campaign by including the message in all printadvertising.
www.thetrojanhorse.com /story.htm   (583 words)

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