Glossary of Data Communications TermsCourtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc. |
Term:
trojan horse
Definition: any program designed to do things that the user of the program did not intend to do. An example of this would be a program which simulates the logon sequence for a computer and, rather than logging the user on, simply records the user's userid and password in a file for later collection. Rather than logging the user on, it steals the user's password so that the Trojan Horse's designer can long on as the user. |