Ma'anar: A Trojan ne mai kai, ƙunshi malicious - wato, yana da bit of code software cewa aikata wani abu mummunan zuwa kwamfutarka. Ba ya yi maimaita (kamar yadda tsutsa zai zama), kuma ba ya haɗu da wasu fayiloli (azaman cutar zai). Duk da haka, Trojans sukan hadu tare da ƙwayoyin ƙwayoyin cuta da tsutsotsi, saboda suna iya samun irin wannan mummunan sakamako.
Yawancin mutanen da suka gabata a Trojans sun kasance sun fara kaddamar da hare-haren rarraba-rarraba (DDoS), irin su wadanda suka sha wahala daga Yahoo da eBay a ƙarshen 1999. A yau, ana amfani da Trojans sosai don samun damar shiga waje - nesa , samun damar shiga - zuwa kwamfutar.
Akwai daban-daban na Trojans, ciki har da Trojans mai nĩsa (RAT), Trojans baya (backdoors), IRC Trojans (IRCbots), da kuma masu bincike. Yawancin waɗannan halaye daban-daban za a iya aiki a cikin guda Trojan. Alal misali, mai mahimmanci wanda ke aiki a matsayin ƙofar baya yana iya zama ɓarna kamar wasan wasa. IRC Trojans suna haɗuwa tare da baya da kuma RATs don ƙirƙirar tarin kamfanonin kwakwalwa da ake kira botnets .
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