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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. Mobile malware - Wikipedia

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   Duts: This parasitic file infector virus is the first known virus for the Pocket PC platform. It attempts to infect all EXE files that are larger than 4096 bytes in the current directory. Skulls: A trojan horse piece of 0 9amcode that targets mainly Symbian OS. Once downloaded, the virus replaces all phone desktop icons with images of a skull.

4. Pegasus (spyware) - Wikipedia

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   The software can also collect Wi-Fi passwords. [16] The researchers noticed that the software's code referenced an NSO Group product called "Pegasus" in leaked marketing materials. [17] Pegasus had previously come to light in a leak of records from Hacking Team, which indicated the software had been supplied to the government of Panama in 2015 ...

5. SpySheriff - Wikipedia

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   SpySheriff [a] (also known as BraveSentry 2.0, among other names) is a malware that disguises itself as anti-spyware software. It attempts to mislead the user with false security alerts, threatening them into buying the program. [4] Like other rogue antiviruses, after producing a list of false threats, it prompts the user to pay to remove them.

6. Comparison of computer viruses - Wikipedia

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   Creeper virus - The first malware that ran on ARPANET; ILOVEYOU; Leap - Mac OS X Trojan horse; Shamoon a wiper virus with stolen digital certificates destroyed over 35,000 computers owned by Saudi Aramco. Storm Worm - A Windows trojan horse that forms the Storm botnet; Stuxnet First destructive ICS-targeting Trojan which destroyed part of Iran ...

7. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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   February 16: Discovery of the first-ever malware for Mac OS X, a low-threat trojan-horse known as OSX/Leap-A or OSX/Oompa-A, is announced. Late March: Brontok variant N was found in late March. [45] Brontok was a mass-email worm and the origin for the worm was from Indonesia. June: Starbucks is a virus that infects StarOffice and OpenOffice.