:Trojan horse: [coined by MIT-hacker-turned-NSA-spook Dan Edwards]
n. 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! See {back door}, {virus}, {worm},
{phage}, {mockingbird}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
n. 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! See {back door}, {virus}, {worm},
{phage}, {mockingbird}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- Trojan horse: [coined by MIT-hacker-turned-NSA-spook Dan Edwards]
n.
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!... - phage: n. A program that modifies other programs or databases in
unauthorized way
esp. one that propagates a {virus} or {Trojan horse}.... - phage n.
A program that modifies other programs or
databases in unauthorized way
esp. one that propagates a virus or Trojan horse.... - worm: [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The
Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] n.
A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes.... - AIDS: /aydz/ n. Short for A* Infected Disk Syndrome (`A*' is a
{glob} pattern that matches, but is not limited to, Apple),
this condition is quite often the result of practicing unsafe
{SEX}.
See {virus}, {worm}, {Trojan horse}, {virgin}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary... - worm n.
[from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel
"The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] A program that
propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes.
Compare virus. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only crackers write worms.... - mockingbird: n. Software that intercepts communications
(especially login transactions) between users and hosts and
provides system-like responses to the users while saving their
responses (especially account IDs and passwords).
A special case of {Trojan Horse}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary... - virus n.
[from the obvious analogy with biological viruse
via SF] A cracker program that searches out other programs and `infects' them by embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they become Trojan horses.... - cience-fiction fandom:: n. Another voluntary subculture having a
very heavy overlap with hackerdom
most hackers read SF and/or fantasy fiction avidly, and many go to `cons' (SF conventions) or are involved in fandom-connected activities such as the Society for Creative Anachronism....
