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Trojan horse

See Trojan.

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Trojan Horse

1. Greek myth the huge wooden hollow figure of a horse left outside Troy by the Greeks when they feigned retreat and dragged inside by the Trojans. The men concealed inside it opened the city to the final Greek assault

2. Computing a bug inserted into a program or system designed to be activated after a certain time or a certain number of operations

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Trojan horse [‚trō·jən ′hȯrs]

(computer science)

A computer program that has an unannounced function in addition to a desirable apparent function.

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Trojan Horse

hollow horse concealed soldiers, enabling them to enter and capture Troy. [Gk. Myth.: Iliad]

See : Deceit

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(application, security)

Trojan horse - (Coined by MIT-hacker-turned-NSA-spook Dan Edwards) A malicious, security-breaking program that is disguised as something benign, such as a directory lister, archiver, game, or (in one notorious 1990 case on the Mac) a program to find and destroy viruses! A Trojan horse is similar to a back door. See also RFC 1135, worm, phage, mockingbird.