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

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Date: Thu Aug 11 00:20:30 2005
From: dankney at sunsetfilms.com (Donald J. Ankney)
Subject: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computer
	forensics

Wikipedia:

In the context of computer software, a Trojan horse is a malicious  
program that is disguised as legitimate software. The term is derived  
from the classical myth of the Trojan horse. In the siege of Troy,  
the Greeks left a large wooden horse outside the city. The Trojans  
were convinced that it was a gift, and moved the horse to a place  
within the city walls. It turned out that the horse was hollow,  
containing Greek soldiers who opened the city gates of Troy at night,  
making it possible for the Greek army to pillage the city. Trojan  
horse programs work in a similar way: they may look useful or  
interesting (or at the very least harmless) to an unsuspecting user,  
but are actually harmful when executed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse_%28computing%29

Your definition is just a subset of the standard, broader one.

On Aug 10, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Jason Coombs wrote:

> foofus@...fus.net wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:26:23AM +0200, Thierry Zoller wrote:
>>
>>> The industry definition is perfectly within Homers defintion of a  
>>> Trojan
>>> horse.
>>> JC> http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html
>>>
>> When I read Homer, it was a Greek horse.
>>
>
>
> The horse became the property of the Trojans before it launched its  
> hidden attack, but your point is interesting as well.
>
> There are other terms used to describe malware disguised as  
> something else that has hidden capability to cause damage. Logic  
> bomb, for example.
>
> I'll do some more work on this and see where it leads. The proposal  
> of "backdoor" as the better term just doesn't work, since a  
> backdoor is a hidden mechanism for gaining entry or control of a  
> system that is built into the system by its creator or some other  
> involved party. An intruder may open up a backdoor in a system by  
> altering its programming rather than by planting a Trojan, so there  
> needs to be a distinction between the two.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason Coombs
> jasonc@...ence.org
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