A handful of users click on a link that reads "free unlimited PacMan game" to reveal a blank screen.They later find that their whole hardware was also wiped.The page that falsely advertised a free game is an example of a Trojan horse.

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This statement correctly describes a Trojan horse. A Trojan horse is a malicious software that masquerades as legitimate software, often offering some incentive or benefit to the user, but actually contains harmful code within it that can damage or steal data from the user's system. In this case, the offer of a free game was the lure to entice users to click on the link, but the actual result was the wiping of their hardware.

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