1) Advertising technique 2) Destructive software 3) Espionage method 4) Fatal Greek gift 5) Historic but fatal Greek gift 6) Legendary Greek ruse 7) Mega Top 50 number-one single 8) Mount for Hector 9) Number-one single in Denmark 10) The Bill episode
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The Trojan Horse is a tale from the Trojan War about the subterfuge that the Greeks used to enter the city of Troy and win the war. In the canonical version, after a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greeks constructed a huge wooden horse, and hid a select force of men inside. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into the...
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[business] In business, a trojan horse is an advertising offer made by a company that is designed to draw potential customers by offering them cash or something of value for acceptance, but following acceptance, the buyer is forced to spend a much larger amount of money, either by being signed into a lengthy contract, from which exit is dif...
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[computing] A Trojan horse, or Trojan, in computing is a generally non-self-replicating type of malware program containing malicious code that, when executed, carries out actions determined by the nature of the Trojan, typically causing loss or theft of data, and possible system harm. The term is derived from the story of the wooden horse u...
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A Trojan horse is a malicious program that pretends to be a benign application. It purposefully does something the user does not expect. Trojans are not viruses since they do not replicate, but they can be just as destructive.
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a program that pretends to do, or does, something useful, but which contains code that does something else - this can range from printing silly messages on your screen to trashing your hard drive - it's the network equivalent of a virus
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(from the article `cybercrime`) Distributed DoS attacks are a special kind of hacking. A criminal salts an array of computers with computer programs that can be triggered by an ... ...viruses—programs that replicate themselves and spread among the computers in a network, `infecting` systems and potentially destroying file...
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huge, hollow wooden horse constructed by the Greeks to gain entrance into Troy during the Trojan War. The horse was built by Epeius, master ... [2 related articles]
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Program that causes unexpected and undesirable effects when installed or run by an unsuspecting user. These effects may be immediate or they may wait for some predetermined time or condition before they are triggered.
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A program with hidden destructive functionality.
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Seemingly innocuous but treacherous gift from an enemy. In Greek mythology, during the siege of Troy, an enormous wooden horse was left by the Greek army outside the gates of the city. The Greeks...
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1) Any program designed to do things that the user of the program did not intend to do or that disguises its harmful intent. 2) Program that installs itself while the user is making an authorized entry; and, then are used to break-in and exploit the system.
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A computer program is either hidden inside another program or that masquerades as something it is not in order to trick potential users into running it. For example a program that appears to be a game or image file but in reality performs some other function. The term 'Trojan Horse' comes from a possibly mythical ruse of war used by the Greeks some...
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n] - a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War
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A barrel shaped vessel containing a seal oil reservoir and a vacuum tank. Oil travels from the defoaming tanks into the seal oil reservoir. It then flows into the vacuum tank compartment where gases and vapor are liberated from the oil. The oil is then drawn from the bottom of the vacuum tank through a differential pressure regulator to maintain th...
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Wooden Horse noun a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War
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(mythology) Seemingly innocuous but treacherous gift from an enemy. In Greek mythology, during the siege of Troy, an enormous wooden horse was left by the Greek army outside the gates of the city. The Greeks had sailed away as if they had retreated. The Trojans, believing the horse to be a rel...
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A maliciously-created computer program or virus that causes significant damage to a system. Trojan Horses are typically given attractive file names and placed on bulletin board systems. Damage usually occurs when the user launches the Trojan horse on his own system. Named after a successful offensive ploy made by the ancient Greek army at the si...
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