Data Recovery Glossary > Trojan Horse

Trojan Horse is a program containing hidden codes that cause damage to the hard disk. Trojan horse seems to be a simple program but can create disasters like erasing the hard disk, ruining the file allocation table, and exploiting or falsifying the data. Trojan horse comes disguised as a beneficial program, a game or a virus protection software.

Trojan horse works similarly to a computer virus but do not multiply. It damages a computer or installs code that can cancel out the security measures and launch distributed denial of service attack. The harmful code is contained in the system causes damages to the data. In many cases it allows somebody from a remote site to take control of the system.

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