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sobriqueAnyone 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)
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)
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Date: 2005-03-03 09:19 am (UTC)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...