Cyber Glossary
Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.
Trojan horse
a program downloaded from the Internet that contains destructive elements to a computer. Unlike a true virus, the Trojan horse does not replicate itself, it simply erases the users hard drive. A Trojan horse can come disguised as a useful application such as a game or even a virus protection program. The name is taken from Greek mythology, where the Greeks gifted their Trojan enemies, a large wooden horse as a peace offering. Once inside the city of Troy, Greek soldiers, who were hiding inside the hollow horse, opened the gates to the city allowing fellow soldiers to invade.
