The number of computer viruses is growing constantly. Every day, there are new kinds of "digital infection", affecting hundreds and thousands of PCs around the world. Typically, viruses are aimed at obtaining benefits - theft of passwords, credit card data and other confidential information. Less often, viruses appear on the light, the purpose of which is to destroy the user's computer. And it seems, the new "destroyer PC" began to gain popularity.
Not so long ago, one of the most famous so-called ZIP-bombs called 42.zip was found on the Web. It is worth noting that similar viruses existed before, but now they are beginning to get a second birth. Such files were called the "Death Archive". So what is 42.zip? In fact, this is an archive file weighing 42 kilobytes. Only after unpacking the file will weigh 4.5 petabytes. How is this possible? All thanks to the clever algorithms of archiving and data generation. As the author of the Telegram-channel reported, spread the news (the name of the channel for obvious reasons we will not call you, since there is a link to download the malicious archive).
"Inside the archive contains 5 layers of archives of 16 files per level. The size of each file on the last level is 4.3 gigabytes. Many antiviruses have already learned to recognize a malicious program. But still there are craftsmen who encrypt these archives to hide them from the antivirus. "
The very same archive during unpacking causes the collapse of the system and the breakdown of computer components, which simply can not cope with the information received. The administration of our site strongly discourages the installation of unknown files on your computer, much less go and check 42.zip in action.
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