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Apple Computing Products:
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all of the folders on my desktop disappeared
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<blockquote data-quote="D3v1L80Y" data-source="post: 925682" data-attributes="member: 2960"><p>That depends greatly on what the trojan was designed to do.</p><p></p><p>Unlike a virus (which is self-transmitting, self-spreading, self-extracting, self-executing and requires no input from the user in any way to work), a trojan is a file disguised as something that would otherwise be considered 'innocent'.</p><p></p><p>As such, trojans require input from the user in order to spread and to even work... meaning, the user has to click on, open, give permission to run or otherwise activate something.</p><p></p><p>Once the user has done this, the trojan is free to do whatever it was designed to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="D3v1L80Y, post: 925682, member: 2960"] That depends greatly on what the trojan was designed to do. Unlike a virus (which is self-transmitting, self-spreading, self-extracting, self-executing and requires no input from the user in any way to work), a trojan is a file disguised as something that would otherwise be considered 'innocent'. As such, trojans require input from the user in order to spread and to even work... meaning, the user has to click on, open, give permission to run or otherwise activate something. Once the user has done this, the trojan is free to do whatever it was designed to do. [/QUOTE]
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