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Trojan horse (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Trojan horse , or trojan for short, is a term used to describe malware that appears, to the user, to perform a desirable function but, in fact, facilitates unauthorized access to the user's ...
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Trojan Horse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Trojan Horse was a tale from the Trojan War, as told in Virgil's Latin epic poem The Aeneid . The events in this story from the Bronze Age took place after Homer's Iliad , and before Homer's...
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The most common blunder people make when the topic of a computer virus arises is to refer to a worm or Trojan horse as a virus. While the words Trojan, worm and virus are often used interchangeably, they are not exactly the same. ... The Difference Between a Computer Virus, Worm and Trojan Horse;; Last updated:
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This came about, some say, after the capture or desertion of the Trojan seer Helenus 1, who, after telling the Achaeans that there was no hope left for Troy once the Palladium had been stolen from the city, declared that they should offer a WOODEN HORSE to Athena, making it so large that the Trojans would have to...
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A few of the men hid themselves in a huge hollow wooden horse, now known as the Trojan Horse, and the rest packed up into their ship and left, and one Greek, named Sinon, went into Troy as a spy. The Trojans thought the Greeks had surrendered, and were persuaded by Sinon to bring the horse into the city as a victory trophy.
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The Trojan Horse ... The Trojan War has its roots in the marriage between Peleus and Thetis, a sea-goddess. Peleus and Thetis had not invited Eris, the goddess of discord, to their marriage and the outraged goddess stormed into the wedding banquet and threw a golden apple onto the table.
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