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Originally posted by Sir Krustin:
I'll assume the trojan comment is serious. A trojen isn't quite a virus. It's a piece of software that promises one thing, but really does something else. Someone could offer you a piece of software doing something useful, but when you install it, it then erases your harddisk or spies on your system sending personal information to the internet, for example.
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No, you described a virus and a keylogger.
A trojan is a kind of malicious code that burries inside your PC and allows the hacker who infected you easy access into your system. Some trojans are untargeted, and allow pretty much any hacker anywhere easy access to the infected system, while some work much like Remote Desktop. Trojans are often masked as other programs that require internet access, the most popular ones imitating java, update scheduler and printer ques.