Hey what exactly is a decompression bomb?
? I read an article on Wikipedia and I quote, " A decompression bomb is a malicious archive file designed to crash or render useless the program or system reading it. It is often employed to disable antivirus software, so that a more traditional virus sent afterwards could get through undetected.
Rather than hijacking the normal operation of the program, a zip bomb allows the program to work as intended, but the archive is carefully crafted so that unpacking it (e.g. by a virus scanner in order to scan for viruses) requires inordinate amounts of time, disk space or memory.
A zip bomb is usually a small file (up to a few hundred kilobytes) for ease of transport and to avoid suspicion. However, when the file is unpacked its contents are more than the system can handle.
The technique has been used on dialup bulletin board systems at least as long as compressing data archive programs have been around.[citation needed]
Today, most antivirus programs can detect whether a file is a zip bomb and so avoid unpacking it"
And I read a reply to a similar question on Avast forum which says that it is just a highly packed archive?
So what should I do with these files
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