full-disclosure - Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computer forensics

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Date: Wed Aug 10 22:23:06 2005
From: Thierry at sniff-em.com (Thierry Zoller)
Subject: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computer
	forensics

Dear Jason Coombs,

JC> Come on, do you even understand what a Trojan is?
JC> By definition, the Trojan gives a third-party the ability to control the
JC> computer from a remote location.
Weel duh, no. In fact a Trojan Horse means that the program does other
things it indicates (ex: pretends to be a game runs a virus). What you refer
to is a backdoor. A backdoor can be a Trojan, and a Trojan can be a Backdoor,
but the link is not logicaly necessary.

Or in better English :
A computer trojan horse is a program which appears to be something good,
but actually conceals something bad.

Regards,
Thierry Zoller
mailto:Thierry@...ff-em.com