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1. (n.) Trojan horse
a gigantic hollow wooden horse that the Greeks left at the gates of Troy as a feigned sacrifice: once the horse was within the walls, soldiers emerging from it allowed the Greek army to enter and conquer the city.
2. Trojan horse
a person or thing intended to undermine or destroy from within.
3. Trojan horse
a nonreplicating computer program planted illegally in another program to do damage locally when the software is activated.
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) fifth column, Trojan horse
a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst
2. (noun) trojan, trojan horse
a program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful
"the contents of a trojan can be a virus or a worm"; "when he downloaded the free game it turned out to be a trojan horse"
3. (noun) Trojan Horse, Wooden Horse
a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. trojan horse
[coined by MIT-hacker-turned-NSA-spook Dan Edwards] A malicious
security-breaking program that is disguised as something benign, such as a
directory lister, archiver, game, or (in one notorious 1990 case on the
Mac) a program to find and destroy viruses! See
back door, virus,
worm, phage,
mockingbird.
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