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Option 2 : Trojan horse is a software that is designed to be spread from one computer to another, often sent as an email attachment.
The correct answer is Trojan horse is a software that is designed to be spread from one computer to another, often sent as an email attachment.
- Trojan Horse:
- A Trojan horse is a hidden piece of code.
- Viruses enter a system secretly where the Trojan horse enters by deceiving a user.
- A user allows or invites a Trojan into the system, believing in it, but actually, the Trojan horse contains some malicious code to perform some malicious activity.
- Before a Trojan can attack, it must find a way to entice the victim to copy, download, and run it.
- Trojan horse is not sent as an email attachment.
- Since few people would knowingly run a malicious program, Trojan must disguise themselves as other programs that the victim believes to be harmless (such as games, utilities, or popular applications).
- A computer virus is a type of malevolent code or program written to alter the way a computer operates and is designed to spread from one computer to another.
- A virus is corporate by inserting or attaching itself to a lawful program or document that supports macros in order to execute its code.
- In the procedure, a virus has the prospective to cause unannounced or damaging effects, such as harming the system software by corrupting or destroying data.
- Common types of Computer Viruses are:
- File Infecting Virus
- Macro Virus
- Trojan Horse
- Browser Hijacker
- Web Scripting Virus
- Boot Sector Virus
- Polymorphic Virus
- Resident Virus
- Multipartite Virus
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