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It is an adjective which can be used to describe something as having a hidden or insidious purpose, or being similar to the ancient Trojans who were renowned for their ability to deceive their enemies. Example: The Trojan computer virus had an insidious purpose, which was to steal private information from unsuspecting users.
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Trojan
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Malware that appears to perform or actually performs a desired task for a user while performing a harmful task without the user's knowledge or consent.
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How seriously has the Department for Education taken the report by the former counter-terrorism officer Peter Clarke on Birmingham's "Trojan horse" affair, which it commissioned?
Inspectors last month made no-notice inspections of the five schools – Oldknow, Park View, Saltley, Golden Hillock and Nansen – that had all been downgraded to "inadequate" after an investigation triggered by allegations of a "Trojan horse" plot by Islamists.
The latter is an intriguing vision, a trojan horse of massive deregulation of some of everything – a clown balloon horse, with rainbow polka dots and a jackass smile.
You can be a Trojan horse".
Voters needed a more protective Europe, thundered Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president from 2007-12, or they would reject it as a "Trojan horse" for globalisation.All this is revealing.
Soaring buildings, sliding dollar Chopped chips Trojan dragons In the picture New colours at Benetton Award: Business book of the year Reprints Related items Economics focus: Sickness or symptom?Feb 5th 2004Even so, policing contractors and subcontractors in faraway places is not easy.
Several industry officials have described their new machines as "Trojan horses".
FairSearch, which represents Microsoft and others, described Android as a "Trojan horse" that was part of Google's strategy to "dominate mobile markets".
Soaring buildings, sliding dollar Chopped chips Trojan dragons In the picture New colours at Benetton Award: Business book of the year Reprints Related items Product placement: Lights, camera, brandsOct 27th 2005Those numbers may be conservative.
It is a measure of Ukrainian distrust of Russian machinations that an aid convoy should be widely suspected of being a Trojan horse for invasion.In this section A surge from the sea The next sultan?
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And there is a possibility that the sovereign-wealth funds' good behaviour is a Trojan-horse strategy which in time will give way to mercantilist interference.In practice, sovereign-wealth funds so far have given little cause for alarm.
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