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What's a... Trojan Horse ?

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What's a... Trojan Horse ?

A Trojan Horse, often referred to as just a Trojan, is a program which purports to do one thing, but actually does another. Not always damaging or malicious, they are often associated with things like deleting files, overwriting hard-drives, or being used to provide remote access to a system for an attacker. Classical Trojans include keyloggers being delivered as game files, or file deleters masquerading as useful utilities. Trojans can be used for many purposes including.

  • Remote Access (somtimes called Remote Access Tools or RAT's, or Backdoors).
  • Keylogging and password stealing (Most spyware falls into this category).
  • What's a... Rootkit ?What's... Scam ?

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