Deck 10: Trojan Horses

Question 1

A Trojan can perform almost any task on a computer that a human can.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

For Trojans to be a threat, they must be installed by the user and activated.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Trojan horse attacks are strictly a "Windows users' problem."

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Never accept attachments that are not expected.

Question 5

XNetStat is a GUI-based netstat tool for Linux that will help you monitor your machine for open ports.

Question 6

Typical functions for a Trojan might include ____, taking screen captures, accessing files on local and shared drives, or acting as a server where the client is the hacker.

A)detecting a virus
B)logging keystrokes
C)deleting other Trojan horses
D)detecting worms

Question 7

____ is a utility package for Linux.

A)Linux-util
B)Linux-patch
C)Linux-apt
D)Apt-util

Question 8

____ is a Trojan horse designed and used to make a horde of zombies to do the hacker's bidding.

A)NetBus
B)Pretty Park
C)BO2K
D)AIDS

Question 9

____ is a site owned by the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute that tracks Internet threats.

A)www.securityfocus.com
B)www.slashdot.com
C)www.nist.org
D)www.cert.org

Question 10

____ is a remote administration server that allows system administrators to control a computer from a remote location.

A)Back Orifice
B)Pretty Park
C)AIDS
D)PC-Write

Question 11

The original Trojan horse appears in Homer's ____________________.

Question 12

____________________ are machines that have been unobtrusively "owned" by a hacker.

Question 13

When a machine is ____________________, the hacker can back door into it at any time and perform actions from that machine as if she were sitting at its keyboard.

Question 14

____________________ was the first known Trojan horse.

Question 15

A widely used method that detects Trojans is called ____________________. This is similar to reconciling your check register every month to verify that the number of deposits and withdrawals match your bank statement.

Question 16

What are some of the distribution vectors used by recent Trojan attacks?

Question 17

What are some of the actions that Trojans can perform?

Question 18

What are some of the most famous Trojans?