goat file

English

Etymology

Named thus because the file acts as a "sacrificial goat".

Noun

goat file (plural goat files)

  1. (computing) An executable file with a known structure and/or file size, designed to be infected by a file-infecting computer virus in order to facilitate the study of such.
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