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  • noun Plural form of trojan.

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Examples

  • The boom in banking trojans is one more off shoot of the spike in cyber crime triggered by the economic slowdown.

    Keeping your bank account safe from trojan attacks 2009

  • According to PCWorld and TechDirt, Windows DRM contains a flaw that allows for attakcers to create music files that contain trojans that attack your computer when you play them, and moreover, the music industry has hired a company called Overpeer which is flooding the P2P networks with infected fake music files.

    Boing Boing: December 26, 2004 - January 1, 2005 Archives 2004

  • Tom Watson, the MP who has led on this, wants to know if private investigators or others also hacked into people's computers, perhaps using so-called trojans, to harvest information "on a scale that will make the phone hackers look like teaboys".

    The new Met chief's U-turn is welcome – he had made a gross misjudgment | Jonathan Freedland 2011

  • It then proceeded to tell me I had 527 'trojans' in my hard drives and documents, they are critical and needed to be removed immediately.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2010

  • There is already malware for mobile phones, such as trojans that steal credit and a lot of people were recently arrested in Romania for installing spyware on their business partners 'mobile phones.

    Softpedia News - Global 2010

  • You can bet your ass, though, that if this were Windows, everyone would somehow find a way to blame Microsoft for making their system vulnerable to "trojans" and not a single person on this web site would give a crap about the difference between "virus" and "trojan" ... all they will see is "security" and

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • · Automatically attempts to heal / remove infected files and other threats such as trojans, worms, and java applets.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2009

  • · Automatic threat handling - AVG can automatically heal or remove infected files and other threats such as trojans, worms and spyware.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2009

  • GFI MailSecurity´s Trojan & Executable Scanner detects unknown malicious executables, such as trojans, by analyzing what an executable does.

    IT & Security Portal» IT-Observer 2009

  • You can bet your ass, though, that if this were Windows, everyone would somehow find a way to blame Microsoft for making their system vulnerable to "trojans" and not a single person on this web site would give a crap about the difference between "virus" and "trojan" ... all they will see is "security" and

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

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