42.zip

[sobrique]

Anyone remember a little zip file called 42.zip that was doing the rounds a few years back?
Basically, it uses 'zip file within a zip file' techniques (down several levels) to create something trivially small (42k in this case, hence the name) that when fully decompressed was huge. Ya'know, sort of petabytes huge.

Well, as it turns out, our virus scanner cannot deal with this file :/
(oops, I think I owe our notes admin beer)

Comments

[jorune.livejournal.com]

sounds to me that you lost then.

[malal.livejournal.com]

Deja Vu. I'm sure that issue has come up (and been mentioned on LJ) before. Perhaps when you started working there?

[tya.livejournal.com]

:-D

What virus stop do you use?

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

Mcrappy groupshield.
But AFAIK most don't cope - either they deep scan the zip, and bomb because it's just huge, or they don't and viruses could slip through...

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

I can email you a copy if you want though....

wait, that might not be a good idea ;p

(I wonder if gmail's filtering will deal with it...)

[stelas.livejournal.com]

(I wonder if gmail's filtering will deal with it...)

Try it! If you take down gmail.com I'll definitely owe you a beer.

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

The problem is, if gmail doesn't reject it, mark might get quite upset about me mailbombing his server...

[tya.livejournal.com]

It's not my server. :-) It belongs to CSV.

I was gonna say send me a copy to see whether it got filtered, but then I thought the Uni might get a bit upset and have you arrested for propagating a virus type file. :-)