Trojan horse (computing)

Quality:

Trojan horse - type of malware that pretends to be a legitimate program. Article “Trojan horse (computing)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 7.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4286^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4166^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6978^th most popular in all topics.

The 5591^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6835^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Trojan horse (computing)”, its content was written by 40 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4166^th place) and edited by 3406 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5591^st place).

The article is cited 19 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4007 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #106 in November 2018
• Global: #224 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1102 in January 2022
• Global: #2005 in February 2009

There are 50 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Trojan horse (computing)		69.3021
2	Basque (eu) Troiar (informatika)		48.4414
3	German (de) Trojanisches Pferd (Computerprogramm)		41.9358
4	Spanish (es) Troyano (informática)		37.1624
5	Uzbek (uz) Troya oti (kompyuter virusi)		30.4797
6	Malay (ms) Kuda Troia (komputer)		29.6787
7	Italian (it) Trojan (informatica)		27.6848
8	Hebrew (he) סוס טרויאני (תוכנה)		27.4121
9	Persian (fa) اسب تروآ (رایانش)		26.9564
10	French (fr) Cheval de Troie (informatique)		26.8904

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Trojan horse (computing)		12 986 983
2	Spanish (es) Troyano (informática)		4 392 957
3	Japanese (ja) トロイの木馬 (ソフトウェア)		3 963 989
4	French (fr) Cheval de Troie (informatique)		1 957 892
5	Russian (ru) Троянская программа		1 841 095
6	German (de) Trojanisches Pferd (Computerprogramm)		1 659 655
7	Portuguese (pt) Cavalo de Troia (computação)		1 316 144
8	Polish (pl) Koń trojański (informatyka)		1 096 293
9	Chinese (zh) 特洛伊木马 (电脑)		580 474
10	Dutch (nl) Trojaans paard (computers)		553 712

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Trojan horse (computing)		10 237
2	Japanese (ja) トロイの木馬 (ソフトウェア)		2 895
3	French (fr) Cheval de Troie (informatique)		1 656
4	Russian (ru) Троянская программа		1 549
5	German (de) Trojanisches Pferd (Computerprogramm)		883
6	Chinese (zh) 特洛伊木马 (电脑)		858
7	Spanish (es) Troyano (informática)		813
8	Portuguese (pt) Cavalo de Troia (computação)		700
9	Polish (pl) Koń trojański (informatyka)		444
10	Italian (it) Trojan (informatica)		401

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Trojan horse (computing)		933
2	German (de) Trojanisches Pferd (Computerprogramm)		332
3	French (fr) Cheval de Troie (informatique)		233
4	Spanish (es) Troyano (informática)		208
5	Italian (it) Trojan (informatica)		134
6	Russian (ru) Троянская программа		134
7	Dutch (nl) Trojaans paard (computers)		122
8	Polish (pl) Koń trojański (informatyka)		97
9	Portuguese (pt) Cavalo de Troia (computação)		92
10	Japanese (ja) トロイの木馬 (ソフトウェア)		77

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Trojan horse (computing)		6
2	Arabic (ar) حصان طروادة (حاسوب)		2
3	Greek (el) Δούρειος Ίππος (υπολογιστές)		1
4	Spanish (es) Troyano (informática)		1
5	Basque (eu) Troiar (informatika)		1
6	Hebrew (he) סוס טרויאני (תוכנה)		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Troyan proqramı		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Троянски кон (компютри)		0
9	Catalan (ca) Troià (informàtica)		0
10	Czech (cs) Trojský kůň (program)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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