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2. Trojan horse (computing) - Wikipedia

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   In computing, a Trojan horse (or simply Trojan) is a malware that misleads users of its true intent by disguising itself as a normal program. The term is derived from the ancient Greek story of the deceptive Trojan Horse that led to the fall of the city of Troy. [1] Trojans are generally spread by some form of social engineering.

3. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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   The creator, Leurak, explained that the trojan was intended merely as a joke. [86] The trojan alerts the user to the fact that it is a trojan and warns them that if they proceed, the computer may no longer be usable. It contains complex payloads that corrupt the system, displaying artifacts on the screen as it runs. Once run, the application ...

4. Hardware Trojan - Wikipedia

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   One of this physical Trojan characteristics is the type. The type of a Trojan can be either functional or parametric. A Trojan is functional if the adversary adds or deletes any transistors or gates to the original chip design. The other kind of Trojan, the parametric Trojan, modifies the original circuitry, e.g. thinning of wires, weakening of ...

5. The Many Faces of Malware - AOL

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   It is estimated that 560,000 new pieces of malware are detected on a daily basis, and over 1 billion malware programs currently exist.. Malware refers to several different types of malicious ...

6. Computer crime countermeasures - Wikipedia

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   Malicious code is a broad category that encompasses a number of threats to cyber-security. In essence it is any “hardware, software, or firmware that is intentionally included or inserted in a system for a harmful purpose.” [6] Commonly referred to as malware it includes computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, keyloggers, BOTs, Rootkits, and any software security exploits.

7. Zeus (malware) - Wikipedia

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   Zeus is very difficult to detect even with up-to-date antivirus and other security software as it hides itself using stealth techniques. [5] It is considered that this is the primary reason why the Zeus malware has become the largest botnet on the Internet: Damballa estimated that the malware infected 3.6 million PCs in the U.S. in 2009. [6]