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What is trojan?
Trojan Horse is a story from the Trojan War about the subterfuge that the Greeks used to enter the independent city of Troy to win the war.
In computing, trojan, is a type of malicious code that conceals itself in a valid excel or binary or installation file, which looks legitimate but when acted on will sit quietly in computer, collecting information or setting up holes in security, or may just take over computer and lock out users.
A Trojan is designed to damage, steal, or in general inflict some other harmful action on your data or network.
Is it a virus?
BIG NO.
A Trojan is sometimes called a Trojan virus or a Trojan horse virus, but that’s a misnomer. Viruses can execute and replicate themselves. A Trojan cannot. A user has to execute Trojans. Even so, Trojan malware and Trojan virus are often used interchangeably.
Some famous trojan active as of data.
- AzorUlt concealed in emails during COVID-19
- osiris-enhanced-banking-trojan
- Kronos banking Trojan
- Emotet banking Trojan
- Rakhni Trojan crypto trojan
- Switcher Trojan(andorid)
So don’t let trojan win its war on you :-)
