Let’s meet a bomb called Zip bomb

So, what is a zip bomb. Yes, it is it’s a virus known as a zip bomb or zip of death. Its main task is make your computer go out of memory or out of disk space which makes a computer to crash in no time. These viruses are available for download but latest antivirus can scan these viruses and delete them even before even they are fully extracted. To do this task developers have designed the antiviruses to scan zip by layers of compression by doing so antivirus can detect zip bomb after extracting few layers of the zip archive. So how they work, The virus is in .zip format and contain data of 42 kilobytes which is 42KBs it is very small amount of data but it is designed to multiply that data when being extracted which causes the size of extracted data to reach size in petabytes which is impossible to store that extracted data in ram or in page file ( which is a space on hard drive reserved to use as ram when needed ) and that ultimately causes a system to crash. This virus is made to be transferable on small data holding devices such as a USB stick and then transferred to victims’ computer which can you and your whole data is at risk this virus can even damage the processor of the computer ram or hard drive and also causes corruption of the existing data or the data present in the ram. Before it can even become an alarming situation let see what you can do or what to do then to avoid any types of attacks like this. Make sure that you are using latest version of your anti-virus like Avast ( which does a very good job ) and use latest version of windows if you are using windows and if you are using Linux or other operating system then you are in a little safe zone for some time if you are on windows then next step is to use a good USB mounting software like usbdeview which is free downloadable software developed by NireSoft which allows users to check all the USB connections to the computer and also helps users to troubleshoot different problems you can download this software from here, There are many software’s like this on the internet but this one is the best. Last step to your safe heaven is to disable the auto run thing on your computer and also to never trust anyone because these days someone can wash your hard-drive and later say it was a prank so never trust anyone or any USB coming towards your lovely computer, to avoid any kind of loss. Never ever forget to do one thing update your knowledge on technology every day. Stay tuned for more wild articles, subscribe and share this article to the world so people get to know about this trap or whatever it is.