Re: [NTLK] [OT] Warning! Mac trojan in the wild.

From: Edmund Blackadder (edmund_at_helmug.gr)
Date: Wed May 12 2004 - 12:47:32 PDT


On 12 May 2004, at 20:38, Martin Joseph wrote:

> On May 12, 2004, at 11:41 AM, Edmund Blackadder wrote:
>
>> And anyway, it is NOT a trojan by definition.
>
> trojan - a program that appears desirable but actually contains
> something harmful; "the contents of a trojan can be a virus or a worm";
> "when he downloaded the free game it turned out to be a trojan horse"
>

Absolutely but it wasnt a virus or a worm :)

ANd in modern days trojans usually set up backdoors etc. :)

But yes from a certain point of view, it was.

Kostas Theofilis

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