goat file

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. An executable file with a known structure and/or file size, designed to be infected by a…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for goat file. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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