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> Don't know if this is a urban legend or if it really exists, but a
> friend told me about a ZIP file called 42.ZIP (maybe because it is
> 42 KB in size) which - as I heard - is currently floating around. This
> is not a virus but a DoS attack against virus scanners.
>
> If you unzip this ZIP you will get another 10 ZIPs. Each of this again
> contains 10 ZIPs ... until you end up with 10**6 ZIP files. Each of
> these ZIP files contains a file that is about 40 MegByte uncompressed.
>
There was a known DOS attack against some of these filter programs by
sending an empty .zip file. The filter would look inside the file, find
nothing and hang.
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