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/ˈtɹoʊdʒən/
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a program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful
the contents of a trojan can be a virus or a worm
when he downloaded the free game it turned out to be a trojan horse
How To Use trojan In A Sentence
- So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken. Book XXII
- Stealing away, (whence, I suppose, the ironical phrase of trusty Trojan to this day,) like a thief — pretendedly indeed at the command of the gods; but could that be, when the errand he went upon was to rob other princes, not only of their dominions, but of their lives? — Clarissa Harlowe
- The Trojan arrives in an e-mail with an attachment that is zipped and contains an executable.
- Trojans turned in an abject performance to crash to their heaviest defeat in over four years.
- Athena, disguised like a Trojan, finds the archer Pandarus to shoot an arrow at Menelaus.
- Also, because this program is a Trojan, and not a virus, it cannot spread further of its own accord.
- Having said which, the goddesses Thetis, Athena, Hera and indeed the Trojan women, Hecuba and Andromache (and to an extent Helen) are all interesting characters in their own rights; as are most of the men, several of whom (this is hardly a spoiler) get horribly killed off during the conflict. March Books 17) The Iliad, by Homer
- The term Trojan is taken from the wooden horse used by the Greeks to sneak inside Troy and capture it. IT & Security Portal» IT-Observer
- In pt ii. of the _Niebelungen Lied_, he sees his sons and liegemen struck down without making the least effort to save them, and is as unlike the Attila of history as a "hector" is to the noble Trojan "the protector of mankind. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
- Having heard that Crete was abandoned by its native ruler, the Trojans set sail.