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A Trojan Horse Is More Than Just A Statue
By James
At some point during school you probably learned about Odysseus's brilliant plan to sneak soldiers into his enemy's city in the guise of a magnificent statue of a horse-the famous Trojan horse, to be exact. It's a great story, and the plan was such a great tactical maneuver that, unfortunately, hackers have adapted it to suit their malicious attacks against your computer.
A Trojan horse, in the world, is a seemingly harmless program that delivers an unwanted, unsafe program that can have dire consequences. Unlike a virus, though, a Trojan horse relies on the user to complete some sort of action that triggers the program. So, like Odysseus's Trojan horse being pulled inside the city walls, you have to open or install the item to release the harmful program, like Odysseus's soldiers swarming out of the statue.
Trojan horses come in two common forms. The first is as a program that, though normally useful, has been altered by a hacker who has entered in dangerous coding that will initiate when the program is used. For example, you might install a program on your PC that tells you what the weather forecast for your town is. That seems like a pretty useful tool, and it would be if a hacker hadn't used it as a disguise for programming that will slow your down or cause a number of other damaging effects.
The other type of Trojan horse is an independent program that seems to be one thing, like a picture or game. However, when you run the program, you're tricked into performing some task that allows the Trojan to initiate. For example, the "game" might open a box that asks if you want to install a certain component of the game. Regardless of whether you click "yes" or "no," the program will deliver the payload, or effects, of the Trojan horse.
Trojan horses can cause a number of different problems for you and your computer. One particularly dangerous problem is the theft of information. Some Trojan horses can trick your into marking a fraudulent site as one that is safe. So, you might think you're entering personal information, such as passwords or credit card numbers, into a banking site. However,
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Obsolete computer hardware, remember this?
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