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Trojan Horses

DEFINITION: A talking Trojan is a Trojan horse that mocks the user of an infected PC with a repeating audio message while it deletes the entire contents of a hard drive. Security vendor Panda Software SA detected the first talking Trojan, BotVoice.A, in the summer of 2007.

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TROJAN HORSES DEFINITION (continued): …  warns that infection can occur through multiple vectors, including:
  • through physical storage devices like USB flash drives, smartphones, iPods or CD-ROMs
  • directly through a download initiated by other malware or from malicious Web pages
  • over P2P networks.
Once the talking Trojan has been installed, the application uses the Windows text … 
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