Definitions for trojan horse
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fifth column, Trojan horsenoun

   a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst

2. trojan, trojan horsenoun

   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. Trojan Horse, Wooden Horsenoun

   a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Trojan horsenoun

   (Greek legend) a hollow wooden horse by which the Greeks gained access to Ilium or Troy.

2. Trojan horsenoun

   a subversive person or device placed within the ranks of the enemy

3. Trojan horsenoun

   a malicious program that is disguised as legitimate software

4. Trojan horsenoun

   an offer made to lure customers, seeming like a good deal, that has the ultimate effect of extorting large amounts of money from the customer

5. Trojan horsenoun

   a person, organization, social movement, legislation, or ideology with a negative agenda or evil intentions under the guise of positive values or good intentions

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1. Trojan Horse

   The Trojan Horse was a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks during the Trojan War to enter the city of Troy and win the war. The Trojan Horse is not mentioned in Homer's Iliad, with the poem ending before the war is concluded, and it is only briefly mentioned in the Odyssey. But in the Aeneid by Virgil, after a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greeks constructed a huge wooden horse at the behest of Odysseus, and hid a select force of men inside, including Odysseus himself. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy. That night, the Greek force crept out of the horse and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army, which had sailed back under cover of darkness. The Greeks entered and destroyed the city, ending the war. Metaphorically, a "Trojan horse" has come to mean any trick or stratagem that causes a target to invite a foe into a securely protected bastion or place. A malicious computer program that tricks users into willingly running it is also called a "Trojan horse" or simply a "Trojan". The main ancient source for the story still extant is the Aeneid of Virgil, a Latin epic poem from the time of Augustus. The story featured heavily in the Little Iliad and the Sack of Troy, both part of the Epic Cycle, but these have only survived in fragments and epitomes. As Odysseus was the chief architect of the Trojan Horse, it is also referred to in Homer's Odyssey. In the Greek tradition, the horse is called the "wooden horse" (δουράτεος ἵππος douráteos híppos in Homeric/Ionic Greek (Odyssey 8.512); δούρειος ἵππος, doúreios híppos in Attic Greek).

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1. trojan horse

   A Trojan horse, in the context of computing, is a type of malicious software or program that is disguised as, or hidden within, legitimate software or files. It is designed to damage, disrupt, or gain unauthorized access to computer systems and data. Once activated, it can allow cyber criminals to spy, steal sensitive data, and gain backdoor access to the system. The term is derived from the ancient Greek story of the wooden horse used to trick the defenses of the city of Troy.

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1. Trojan Horse

   The Trojan Horse is a tale from the Trojan War about the subterfuge that the Greeks used to enter the city of Troy and end the conflict. In the canonical version, after a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greeks constructed a huge wooden horse, and hid a select force of men inside. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy. That night the Greek force crept out of the horse and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army, which had sailed back under cover of night. The Greeks entered and destroyed the city of Troy, decisively ending the war. The main ancient source for the story is the Aeneid of Virgil, a Latin epic poem from the time of Augustus. The event does not occur in Homer's Iliad, which ends before the fall of the city, but is referred to in the Odyssey. In the Greek tradition, the horse is called the "Wooden Horse". Metaphorically a "Trojan Horse" has come to mean any trick or stratagem that causes a target to invite a foe into a securely protected bastion or space. It is also associated with "malware" computer programs presented as useful or harmless to induce the user to install and run them.

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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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1. trojan horse

   Read the full text of the Trojan Horse poem by Mario William Vitale on the Poetry.com website.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of trojan horse in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of trojan horse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of trojan horse in a Sentence

1. Geraldo Rivera:

   The left is the Democratic Party, we're only talking about a handful of so-called ‘moderates’ who still want trillions in spending. Biden lied about who he was. He was never a moderate. He was there as a Trojan horse, and now the horse has come up lame.

2. Donald Trump:

   This could be like a Trojan horse, two-hundred-thousand people coming into the United States and they come in here and we're totally unprepared.

3. Jason Sudeikis:

   In regard to the mental health stuff, it was just there. It’s been there forever, but it’s really come up a lot in just knowing where the characters were headed and how important it is to work on yourself to help your team, and I think that we were trying to explore that and personify it in a way and kind of trojan horse that there’s bigger issues in this fun, silly little comedy show.

4. Donald Trump:

   This could be the all-time great Trojan horse.

5. Katrina Pierson:

   Their loyalty is not with Senator Cruz. However Senator Cruz has now made Senator Cruz that Trojan horse to push this to a contested convention, this is going to be a very serious problem if Senator Cruz continues to go down this path, and then neither Trump or Ted Cruz becomes the nominee.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=trojan horse
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=trojan horse
6. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#TrojanHorse