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Subject: Re: Isn't that like a Trojan Horse thingo?


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Date Posted: 23/08/04 7:26pm
In reply to: Strega 's message, "Isn't that like a Trojan Horse thingo?" on 20/08/04 11:06pm

A trojan is a pain in the butt.

A Trojan virus, like a Trojan horse, is a program that appears safe -- but smuggles in a worm or virus.

Once in they can do almost anythihng, the common one these days is to change your Internet access phone number to a premium rate number thus costing you anything up to $5/minute, a sign that this is happeneing is that you have connection troubles and you have to keep re=connecting. Oh and this also affects broadband connections!

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