Trojan horse

type of malware that pretends to be a legitimate program
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Trojan horse

Summary

Trojan horse ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (631 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Trojan Horse is named after Trojan horse[2].
  • Trojan horse's GND ID is recorded as 4779909-2[3].
  • Trojan horse's subclass of is recorded as malware[4].
  • Trojan horse's subclass of is recorded as decoy[5].
  • Trojan horse's Commons category is recorded as Trojan horse (malware)[6].
  • Trojan horse's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07df1[7].
  • Trojan horse's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Trojan horses[8].
  • Trojan horse's PSH ID is recorded as 12340[9].
  • Trojan horse's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0280922[10].
  • Trojan horse's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/trojan-computing[11].
  • Trojan horse's different from is recorded as Trojan Horse[12].
  • Trojan horse's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00078379n[13].
  • Trojan horse's Quora topic ID is recorded as Trojan-Horses-malware[14].
  • Trojan horse's CWE ID is recorded as 507[15].
  • Trojan horse's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as trojaner_-_IT[16].
  • Trojan horse's Treccani Vocabulary ID is recorded as trojan-horse[17].
  • Trojan horse's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777337426[18].
  • Trojan horse's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/12835[19].
  • Trojan horse's KBpedia ID is recorded as TrojanHorseComputerProgram[20].
  • Trojan horse's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 트로이 목마(악성코드)[21].
  • Trojan horse's GitHub topic is recorded as trojan[22].
  • Trojan horse's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2777337426[23].
  • Trojan horse's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as computer-science/trojan-horse-program[24].
  • Trojan horse's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as computer-science/trojan-horse[25].
  • Trojan horse's WikiKids ID is recorded as Trojaans_paard_(computers)[26].

Why It Matters

Trojan horse ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (631 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . cwe.mitre.org. cwe.mitre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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