meaning of trojan horse

1. Trojan horse security> 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! A Trojan horse is similar to a back door. See also RFC 1135, worm, phage, mockingbird. [Jargon File]
2. 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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