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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. Alureon - Wikipedia

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   Alureon (also known as TDSS or TDL-4) is a trojan and rootkit created to steal data by intercepting a system's network traffic and searching for banking usernames and passwords, credit card data, PayPal information, social security numbers, and other sensitive user data. [1]

4. AIDS (Trojan horse) - Wikipedia

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   AIDS, also known as Aids Info Drive or PC Cyborg Trojan, is a DOS Trojan horse whose payload mungs and encrypts the names of all directories on drive C:. It was developed by Dr. Joseph Popp (1950-2006), an evolutionary biologist with a doctorate from Harvard.

5. Zeus (malware) - Wikipedia

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   FBI: The Zeus Fraud Scheme. In October 2010 the US FBI announced that hackers in Eastern Europe had managed to infect computers around the world using Zeus. [8] The virus was distributed in an e-mail, and when targeted individuals at businesses and municipalities opened the e-mail, the trojan software installed itself on the victimized computer, secretly capturing passwords, account numbers ...

6. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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   September 9: The virus, called "here you have" or "VBMania", is a simple Trojan horse that arrives in the inbox with the odd-but-suggestive subject line "here you have". The body reads "This is The Document I told you about, you can find it Here" or "This is The Free Download Sex Movies, you can find it Here".

7. The Many Faces of Malware - AOL

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   Virus & worms: Attacks through the internet, emails or contaminated files, then automatically replicates itself. Viruses require human action to spread to other computers, whereas worms spread by ...