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Zip Bomb? - Dean Winchester - Mar 11, 2013
So I hadn't really heard of this till a couple of days ago when my friend told me his computer got it...
It's called a Zip Bomb and basically what it does is that it creates a .zip file of usually 42KB of compressed data, and when you unzip it, it will give you about 4,5 PetaBytes (or 4 503 599 626 321 920 bytes)
Any of you heard of it before?? It will totally ruin your computer...
My friend hasn't used his computer since, I dunno if there is a fix for it..:S
* - zombiesloth - Mar 11, 2013
No it just crashes, the first uses were for killing boxes and for killing email filtering services. The thing expands into memory and then nothing.
* - Levay - Mar 11, 2013
Hahaha, never heard of this before going to do my research sounds fun!
-The Jackle