All I hear people talking about when it comes to malware is trojan, trojan, trojan. I can’t think of any program that would be considered malware/virus without being a trojan, because as far as I’m aware, people don’t purposefully download malware unless it is to sandbox and test for what it does. So are there any programs that are legitimately not a trojan?
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The terms are very similar but not synonymous.
A Trojan horse is software specifically designed to trick users into installing it.
Malware has many of the same characteristics, but includes software that is just poorly written.
So all Trojan software is malware, but not all malware is a Trojan horse.
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