May 15, 2003

goat file

A sacrificial file used to test a computer virus, i.e. a dummy executable that carries a sample of the virus, isolated so it can be atudied. Not common among hackers, since the Unix systems most use basically don't get viruses.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:45 AM

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