You all are familiar with Zip file, this is a technique with which you can compress your data and create a single file which is small in size and can be transferred from computer to computer.

Zip Bomb is a file, which can easily harm your computer. When you download it, it's size only 4.5 KB, but when you uncommonness it, it's data becomes 4.5 PB, with which your computer can easily get harm during huge processing.

The process is simple. According to the creator of this virus, he had a file with 4.6GB Size and only zeros in it. after making 16 copies of this file, he compressed these in a single zip file, and then again made 16 copies of this zip file and then zip these zipped files to a single zip file, and continues this process for some iterations.

Now when you unzip this file, it compresses a single file in an iteration again and again and this becomes an unstopped process, which finally harms your system.

If you want to try these, here are the links.

http://www.unforgettable.dk/
http://www.steike.com/code/useless/zip-file-quine/droste.zip

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