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Trojan Horse is not a Malware Type
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<blockquote data-quote="struppigel" data-source="post: 952636" data-attributes="member: 86910"><p>The mere fact that there are several definitions for the term "Trojan" underlines my point: The term is fuzzy because it is used/understood differently.</p><p>Antivirus vendors are the ones who are responsible for terminology confusion in the first place. They are commercial organizations, not scientific institutions. As such they are bound to use and conflate marketing language with scientific language.</p><p></p><p>If we use that definition, the second problem I mentioned also still applies. It's an infection vector that's not tied to a malware family. Why do we call remote malware that provides remote control "remote access <strong>trojans" </strong>if we don't know in specific cases how it was distributed and whether malspam or software downloads or other user misleading was used to infect the systems with it in the first place? It's not dependent on the family and very often you cannot tell based on the sample alone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="struppigel, post: 952636, member: 86910"] The mere fact that there are several definitions for the term "Trojan" underlines my point: The term is fuzzy because it is used/understood differently. Antivirus vendors are the ones who are responsible for terminology confusion in the first place. They are commercial organizations, not scientific institutions. As such they are bound to use and conflate marketing language with scientific language. If we use that definition, the second problem I mentioned also still applies. It's an infection vector that's not tied to a malware family. Why do we call remote malware that provides remote control "remote access [B]trojans" [/B]if we don't know in specific cases how it was distributed and whether malspam or software downloads or other user misleading was used to infect the systems with it in the first place? It's not dependent on the family and very often you cannot tell based on the sample alone. [/QUOTE]
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