66.zip

A zip bomb is a relatively small file that, when decompressed, expands into an impossibly large amount of data—often petabytes ( terabytes) or exabytes ( petabytes).

Fills the hard drive completely, causing applications to crash or the OS to fail. 66.zip

Rapidly uses all available RAM, leading to a system-wide "Blue Screen of Death" (BSOD). Protective Measures A zip bomb is a relatively small file

: These files exploit the recursive nature of certain compression algorithms or the ability to nest many layers of compressed folders within one another. 66.zip

The decompression process consumes 100% of processing power, freezing the system.

: Most security software now flags zip files with unusually high compression ratios as suspicious.