Trojan Horse

A Trojan Horse, is any form a of malware in which misrepresents itself to appear use full, routine or interesting in order to persuade one to download it. Trojans can contain malicious code that when triggered can cause damage or loss of a computer’s data. More commonly however, Trojans are used to install backdoors, contacting a controller which can then have unauthorized access to the affected computer. A very important distinction from true viruses is that they do not replicate themselves, as viruses do.