ESET Glossary – Table of Contents

Canary file

A canary file is a fake computer document placed amongst actual documents to aid in the early detection of unauthorized data access, copying or modification.


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If you are visiting this page using a link from a file on your machine, the file has been deployed as part of the ESET Inspect security monitoring solution. ESET Inspect detects changes to this file to detect threats such as ransomware that modify files within certain locations.