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No, a Trojan is something you are tricked into installing that opens the door of your computer to the attacker, much as the Greeks used the Trojan Horse to tric
by eevilspock 15y ago
No, a Trojan is something you are tricked into installing that opens the door of your computer to the attacker, much as the Greeks used the Trojan Horse to trick the Trojans.
- yanw 15y agoNot much of a trick if you had to allow alternative markets and still get presented with its permissions before installing it.
- eevilspock 15y agoFirst you get the definition of "Trojan" wrong, and now you make a new, extremely naive claim. Based on your logic, for example, phishing would never work.
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- yanw 15y agoPhishing depends on user gullibility that is why everyone is vulnerable to phishing. Here you can't even reach the gullible user because there is the extra step of enabling side-loading, anyone who is going to victimized by this 'Trojan' has to do so knowingly and voluntarily.