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	The Difference Between a Virus, Worm and Trojan Horse?
		The most common blunder people make when the topic of a computer virus arises is to refer to a worm or Trojan horse as a virus.
		Viruses, worms and Trojan Horses are all malicious programs that can cause damage to your computer, but there are differences among the three, and knowing those differences can help you to better protect your computer from their often damaging effects.
		Trojans are also known to create a backdoor on your computer that gives malicious users access to your system, possibly allowing confidential or personal information to be compromised.
	www.webopedia.com /DidYouKnow/Internet/2004/virus.asp (1690 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.
		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.
	www.cert.org /advisories/CA-1999-02.html (0 words)

	Trojan horse (computing) - Knowmore (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Trojan horse programs work in a similar way: they may look useful or interesting (or at the very least harmless) to an unsuspecting user, but are actually harmful when executed.
		A Trojan horse can be deliberately attached to otherwise useful software by a cracker, or it can be spread by tricking users into believing that it is a useful program.
		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".
	www.knowmore.org /index.php/Trojan_horse_(computing) (1313 words)

	Trojan Horse
		The Trojan Horse is part of the myth of the Trojan War, though it does not figure in the part of the war narrated in Homer's Iliad.
		The Trojan Horse pulled into Troy, after a Roman wallpainting, on the wall a signal with a Torch sent to the Greeks, Hecuba probably praying to Athena.
		Sinon with the Trojan horse and Trojans, minature of Virgilius Romanus.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/TrojanHorse.html (536 words)

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		Trojan horses rely on users to install them, or they can be installed by intruders who have gained unauthorized access by other means.
		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.
		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)

	What is Trojan horse? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
		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.
		Trojan horses are broken down in classification based on how they breach systems and the damage they cause.
	www.webopedia.com /TERM/T/Trojan_horse.html (292 words)

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	What is Trojan horse? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
		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.
		Trojan horses are broken down in classification based on how they breach systems and the damage they cause.
	webopedia.internet.com /Networks/Security/Trojan_horse.html (0 words)

	blue book for horse trailers: Trojan horse (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the context of computer software, a Trojan horse is a malicious program that is...
		The term is derived from the classical myth of the Trojan Horse.
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	migotech.com /blue-book-for-horse-trailers/2006/04/trojan-horse-computing-wikipedia-free.html (334 words)

	Definition of Trojan Horse
		Trojan horses are software programs that masquerade as regular programs, such as games, disk utilities, and even antivirus programs.
		For example, a Trojan horse might appear to be a computer game, but once you double-click it, the program starts writing over certain parts of your hard drive, corrupting your data.
		Though it is possible for a Trojan horse to be attached to a virus file that spreads to multiple computers.
	www.sharpened.net /glossary/definition.php?trojanhorse (337 words)

	Trojan Horse
		A Trojan horse is a relatively dangerous computer program that does something which the programmer (or packager, or distributor, or advertiser) maliciously intends it to do, but which is unknown to the user.
		A Trojan horse differs from a virus in that it is a stand-alone program; the Trojan does not attach to another program.
		An early Trojan horse was the 1975 ANIMAL program, a game to identify an animal but which also spread itself to other users on UNIVAC Exec 8 computers[1].
	www.hacking.teleactivities.net /introduction/trojan_horse.html (328 words)

	The Basics: What are Trojan Horses?
		Named for the giant wooden horse the Greeks allegedly gave the Trojans as a peace offering, a modern day Trojan horse is a destructive computer program that masquerades as a benign application.
		Trojan horses can also be sent via instant message, delivered on CD-ROM, or downloaded from websites or file-sharing programs.
		Trojan horses are often hard to detect, and by checking the firewall's log files, you may find a Trojan or other malware that snuck past your anti-virus program.
	technology.inc.com /security/articles/200609/trojan_horses.html (555 words)

	Symantec Security Response - Glossary
		A Trojan Horse must be sent by someone or carried by another program and may arrive in the form of a joke program or software of some sort.
		The malicious functionality of a Trojan Horse may be anything undesirable for a computer user, including data destruction or compromising a system by providing a means for another computer to gain access, thus bypassing normal access controls.
		Risks that do not meet the definitions of Viruses, Trojan horses, Worms, or other security risk categories, but which may present a risk to a computer and its data, an unwanted nuisance to the user, or exhibit other unexpected or unwanted results when the risk is present and functioning.
	securityresponse.symantec.com /avcenter/refa.html (12123 words)

	Trojan Horse (Definition) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Trojan horse attacks pose one of the most serious threats to computer security.
		In today's computer world, a trojan horse is a malicious, security-breaking program that is disguised as something benign, such as a screen saver, a game, or some other valuable program.
		Trojans are executable programs, which means that when you open the file, it will run and perform some action(s).
	www.bsu.edu /ucs/article/0,1370,4489--,00.html (420 words)

	Trojan horse definition - Small Business Computing Online Dictionary of IT Terms: Powered by Webopedia
		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.
		Trojan horses are broken down in classification based on how they breach systems and the damage they cause.
	sbc.webopedia.com /TERM/T/Trojan_horse.html (298 words)

	Antivirus World - What is a trojan horse?
		In the computer world, a Trojan horse is a malicious computer program which pretends to have some innocent purpose but, when run, has an entirely different effect - one which the programmer (or the packager, distributor, or advertiser) intended and the user didn't expect.
		A simple example of a Trojan horse is a program named "SEXY.EXE" that is posted with a promise of "hot pix"; but, when run, it erases all the files it can find and displays the message "arf, arf, I got you!".
		An early Trojan horse was the 1975 ANIMAL program, a game to identify an animal but which also spread itself to other users on UNIVAC Exec 8 computers.
	www.antivirusworld.com /articles/trojan-horse.php (682 words)

	Rutgers, OIT, IP&S, Netsecurity, Trojan
		This Trojan acts as a server and usually listens on a port that is not readily available to other attackers (there are over 130,000 ports available).
		Some computer users give away all the secrets by including a statement such as "this transmission scanned by Norton Anti virus and is certified as virus-free" at the end of each e-mail sent.
		Trojans are not well understood by many users, and pose just as dangerous threat as their better known relatives, the viruses.
	netsecurity.rutgers.edu /trojan.htm (734 words)

	What is 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 (344 words)

	CERT® Advisories
		The CERT/CC has received reports that several of the released source code distributions of the libpcap and tcpdump packages were modified by an intruder and contain a Trojan horse.
		This advisory reports on the "ExploreZip" Trojan horse, which is propagated by email and which destroys files.
		This advisory discusses a Trojan horse that was found in version 2.2.9 or ircII, the source code for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for UNIX systems.
	www.cert.org /advisories (0 words)

	Computer Security
		A malicious person could set their computer up as a fake wireless access point, listen for these broadcasts, and assume the identity of the preferred wireless networks forcing the client to connect to the fake wireless access point.
		Computers protected by firewalls are not at immediate risk as the firewalls block access to the defective service.
		Computers found to be infected with computer viruses or otherwise threatening the network will be put in quarantine.
	www.jmu.edu /computing/security (5250 words)

	Historical Analysis of Physical Activity -- The Trojan Horse (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Trojan Horse was an instrument of war used by the Greeks to gain access to the city of Troy.
		I believe that it is safe to say that the chronicles of the the Trojan War through Homer's writings were at least a little distorted to make the Greeks look glorious and just.
		Many scholars believe that the myth behind the Trojan War is simply an exaggeration of many smaller conflicts between Troy and the Greeks between the years of 1500 BC and 1200 BC.
	instructional1.calstatela.edu /dfrankl/CURR/kin375/Trojan_Horse.html (787 words)

	Trojan Horses
		A Trojan Horse is a program disguised as normal program, but actually exists to break security and cause damage in some way.
		Trojans are primarily transmitted as malicious files contained in emails or downloaded from websites or P2P software.
		Other Trojans are created to function as a website or spam email server on a computer.
	www.ncsu.edu /resnet/viruses/trojan_horses.php (680 words)

	First Trojan Using Sony DRM Detected
		A new trojan which uses the cover provided by the Sony DRM component to hide has been detected by BitDefender Labs at 12.15 PM GMT today and is in the wild.
		The trojan apparently installs an IRC backdoor on the affected system and may have other functions.
		A removal tool for the trojan and a detection tool for the Sony DRM component are in preparation at the BitDefender Labs and will be made available to the general public in the following hours.
	news.bitdefender.com /NW193-en--First-Trojan-Using-Sony-DRM-Detected.html (364 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.
	www.cnn.com /2000/TECH/computing/08/29/palm.trojan.idg/index.html (609 words)

	Phoney Apple iPod shipping notification email leads to Trojan horse
		Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have warned of a Trojan horse that has been spammed out claiming to be a notification that an Apple iPod MP3 player has been shipped to them, and their account has been charged almost $500.
		Sophos has received reports of the Troj/Dowdec-A Trojan horse, which arrives in a message claiming to be related to the purchase of an Apple iPod.
		Sophos recommends that companies protect their email gateways with a consolidated solution to defend against viruses, spyware and spam, as well as apply an email policy that filters unsolicited executable code at the gateway.
	www.sophos.com /pressoffice/news/articles/2006/08/ipod-email-trojan-horse.html?_log_from=rss (573 words)

	Trojan.Download.Berbew
		This Trojan Horse has been spammed to a large number of individuals in an email message claiming to be from Citibank Accounting or E-Loan.com.
		To account for this we recommend updating your definitions to the July 22, 2003 definitions which can be downloaded from Symantec (choose the.exe download, not the.vdb) or locally.
		The Trojan arrives in an email with one of the following sets of message characteristics with the most prevalent one on campus being the E-Loan spoof.
	www.upenn.edu /computing/virus/03/trojan.download.berbew.html (995 words)

	macosxhints.com - A warning on a new destructive 'trojan horse'
		According to Macworld UK and Intego, the trojan horse is a script that has been neatly saved as a clickable application, complete with a custom Microsoft Office icon.
		So now that you know about this trojan horse, the question is, what should be done about them on OS X? My first thought on reading the article was "Cool, Darwin at work on the peer to peer networks!" But then, I considered some additional scenarios which may have more applicability in the real world.
		Their trusted computing initiative takes it to the extreme that even the OS itself needs to be signed before the computer will start up.
	www.macosxhints.com /article.php?story=20040512085517829 (6823 words)

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