trojan
IPA: trˈoʊdʒʌn
noun
- (computing) Malware that appears to perform or actually performs a desired task for a user while performing a harmful task without the user's knowledge or consent.
- A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Troy.
- A student (especially an athlete) of the University of Southern California.
- (astrophysics) A Trojan asteroid.
- (astrophysics) An object residing at a Trojan point.
- (computing) A Trojan horse.
- (in similes) One who shows great pluck, endurance, strength, etc.
verb
- (computing, transitive) To infect (a system) with a trojan.
adjective
- (astronomy) Describing a satellite (moon or minor planet) that shares an orbit with another
- Of, or relating to, the famed city of Troy or its inhabitants.
- Involving great strength or endurance.
- (astrophysics) Of, or relating to, a Trojan point.
- (programming) Of, or relating to, a certain type of malware.
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Examples of "trojan" in Sentences
- One of the many harmful trojans is the zlob trojan.
- This is the technique of the Trojan horse or trojan.
- Hey do you know what we called a trojan in the army?
- The mourning of the Trojans at Troilus' death is great.
- The Greek and the Trojans make a truce to bury the dead.
- Helenus was a Trojan soldier and prophet in the Trojan ar.
- Hektor and the Trojan Horse leave the city to endure the siege.
- The deficit only seemed to wake the Trojans from their slumber.
- He was the leader of the Locrian contingent during the Trojan War.
- The school mascot is the Sentinel, which resembles the Trojan mascot of USC.
- In this context combinational Trojans and sequential Trojans are distinguished.
- Meeroh sez: The Mac OS X mp3 trojan is being blown completely out of proportion.
- I hate to sound immature, but whenever I hear the word trojan, I think of the commercials ..
- This download is being identified as a trojan by Mcafee Virussscan 8.7 with latest definitions.
- A trojan is a software program that appears benign but performs functions that can be harmful to a computer user's system.
- The important difference between a trojan and a virus is that a trojan is a program that DOES NOT infect other files or spread like a virus.
- My point is that to the extent that AGW becomes identified as a trojan horse for controversial political prescriptions, it loses potential supporters.
- Mobile research group lead Denis Maslennikov warned that the trojan could be the first of a wave as Android's popularity ends up exposing it to attack.
- The mere presence of other celestial bodies in Pluto's orbit is only part of the story, though, because scientists have known for centuries that small objects called trojan asteroids can stably share an orbit with a larger celestial body.
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