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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.
Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software) [1] is any software intentionally designed to cause disruption to a computer, server, client, or computer network, leak private information, gain unauthorized access to information or systems, deprive access to information, or which unknowingly interferes with the user's computer security and privacy.
OSX.FlashBack, [1] also known as the Flashback Trojan, Fakeflash, or Trojan BackDoor.Flashback, is a Trojan horse affecting personal computer systems running Mac OS X. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first variant of Flashback was discovered by antivirus company Intego in September 2011.
Hupigon (also Graftor) detected as (Backdoor.Win32.Hupigon, Trojan.Win32.Hupigon, Backdoor.Win32.Graftor, and Trojan.Win32.Graftor) is a backdoor Trojan. Its first known detection goes back to November 2008, according to Securelist from Kaspersky Labs .
Graybird is a Trojan horse that hides its presence on compromised computers and downloads files from remote Web sites. There are many variations of this virus. It was discovered on September 3, 2003 and affects Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows Vista.
A hardware backdoor is a backdoor implemented within the physical components of a computer system, also known as its hardware. They can be created by introducing malicious code to a component's firmware , or even during the manufacturing process of a integrated circuit , known as a hardware trojan .
ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as the Love Bug or Loveletter, was a computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000. It started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs". [1]
The Storm Worm (dubbed so by the Finnish company F-Secure) is a phishing backdoor [1] [2] Trojan horse that affects computers using Microsoft operating systems, [3] [4] [5] discovered on January 17, 2007. [3] The worm is also known as: Small.dam or Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Small.dam ; CME-711 ; W32/Nuwar@MM and Downloader-BAI (specific variant)