Glossary of Data Communications Terms

Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.

Term: rabbit (informal)
Definition: a program designed to exhaust some resource of a system (CPU time, disk space, spool space, etc.) by replacing itself without limit; it differs from a bacterium in that a rabbit is specifically designed to exhaust resources; it differs from a virus in that it is a complete program in itself; it does not infect other programs.

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