What does Trojan mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n Trojan horses, or Trojans for short, owe their name to the legend of Odysseus' wooden horse, in whose belly Greek soldiers are said to have hidden during the war for Troy. Trojan programs use a similar trick by disguising themselves or their intentions as a useful or at least harmless program, thus deceiving users about their true intentions. This is because they carry out their actual function in the background, unnoticed by the user, e.g. secretly reading or copying the user's data, damaging the system or even encrypting it. Ransomware is also a common variant.<\/p>\n A company uses Trojans to protect personal data from unauthorized access through technical and organizational measures.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trojan horses, or Trojans for short, owe their name to the legend of Odysseus' wooden horse, in whose belly Greek soldiers are said to have hidden during the war for Troy. Trojan programs use a similar trick by disguising themselves or their intentions as a useful or at least harmless program, thus deceiving users about their true intentions. This is because they carry out their actual function in the background, unnoticed by the user, e.g. secretly reading or copying the user's data, damaging the system or even encrypting it. Ransomware is also a common variant.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41318","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nPractical example<\/h2>\n