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What (who) is Trojan horses - definition

TALE FROM TROJAN WAR
Trojan horses; Trojan Horses; Trojan horse; The trojan horse; The Trojan Horse; Gift horse; Trojan-horse; Wooden horse of Troy; Artistic representations of the Trojan Horse
  • The Phoenician ship called ''hippos'', from the Assyrian city of Khorsabad, 8th century BC
  • The [[Mykonos vase]] (750 to 650 BC), with one of the earliest known renditions of the Trojan Horse (note the depiction of the faces of hidden warriors shown on the horse's side)
  • Sinon is brought to Priam, from folio 101r of the [[Roman Vergil]].
  • A replica of the Trojan Horse stands today in Turkey, the modern day location of the city of Troy.

Trojan Horse         
¦ noun something intended to undermine or secretly overthrow an enemy or opponent.
?a program designed to breach the security of a computer system while ostensibly performing an innocuous function.
Origin
from the hollow wooden statue of a horse in which a number of Greeks are said to have concealed themselves in order to enter Troy.
Trojan horse         
(Trojan horses)
1.
If you describe a person or thing as a Trojan horse, you mean that they are being used to hide someone's true purpose or intentions.
Was Colombo the emissary of Pope Paul, his Trojan horse within the Commission?...
N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N for/of n [disapproval]
2.
A Trojan horse is a computer virus which is inserted into a program or system and is designed to take effect after a particular period of time or a certain number of operations. (COMPUTING)
N-COUNT
Trojan horse         
<application, security> (Or just "trojan") A term coined by MIT-hacker-turned-NSA-spook Dan Edwards for 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] (2008-06-19)

Wikipedia

Trojan Horse

The Trojan Horse was a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks during the Trojan War to enter the city of Troy and win the war. The Trojan Horse is not mentioned in Homer's Iliad, with the poem ending before the war is concluded, and it is only briefly mentioned in the Odyssey. But in the Aeneid by Virgil, after a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greeks constructed a huge wooden horse at the behest of Odysseus, and hid a select force of men inside, including Odysseus himself. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy. That night, the Greek force crept out of the horse and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army, which had sailed back under the cover of darkness. The Greeks entered and destroyed the city, ending the war.

Metaphorically, a "Trojan horse" has come to mean any trick or stratagem that causes a target to invite a foe into a securely protected bastion or place. A malicious computer program that tricks users into willingly running it is also called a "Trojan horse" or simply a "Trojan".

The main ancient source for the story still extant is the Aeneid of Virgil, a Latin epic poem from the time of Augustus. The story featured heavily in the Little Iliad and the Sack of Troy, both part of the Epic Cycle, but these have only survived in fragments and epitomes. As Odysseus was the chief architect of the Trojan Horse, it is also referred to in Homer's Odyssey. In the Greek tradition, the horse is called the "wooden horse" (δουράτεος ἵππος douráteos híppos in Homeric/Ionic Greek (Odyssey 8.512); δούρειος ἵππος, doúreios híppos in Attic Greek).

Examples of use of Trojan horses
1. Permission to reprint/republish They‘re called Trojan horses, spyware, adware, malware.
2. Trojan horses try to install themselves on your hard drive when you visit a website.
3. Yesterday campaigners warned that academies were being used as "trojan horses" by some Christians.
4. He still has time left to whisper to Trojan horses from Likud.
5. Congress, are Trojan horses whose real goal is a new government in Russia.