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executable code

n. (context computing English) Instructions for a computer in a form the computer can directly use (i.e. which it can execute). Derived from source code by compiling or assembling and linking.

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If this is the case, the location of the malicious executable code to be run on the victim's machine could be anywhere on the Internet.

Everything containing an executable code should be sent to the simulator first.