Definition of "trojans" [trojans]

• Plural form of trojan. (noun)

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• "The boom in banking trojans is one more off shoot of the spike in cyber crime triggered by the economic slowdown."
• "According to PCWorld and TechDirt, Windows DRM contains a flaw that allows for attakcers to create music files that contain trojans that attack your computer when you play them, and moreover, the music industry has hired a company called Overpeer which is flooding the P2P networks with infected fake music files."
• "Tom Watson, the MP who has led on this, wants to know if private investigators or others also hacked into people's computers, perhaps using so-called trojans, to harvest information "on a scale that will make the phone hackers look like teaboys"."