What is a Trojan horse?

What is a Trojan horse?
A . A piece of malware that downloads and installs other malicious content from the Internet to perform additional exploitation on an affected system.
B . A type of malware that executes instructions determined by the nature of the Trojan to delete files, steal data, and compromise the integrity of the underlying operating system, typically by leveraging social engineering and convincing a user to install such software.
C . A virus that replicates itself over the network infecting numerous vulnerable systems.
D . A type of malicious code that is injected into a legitimate application. An attacker can program a logic bomb to delete itself from the disk after it performs the malicious tasks on the system.

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Answer: B