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- Jul 9, 2007
Can viruses be embeded inside zip archives?
By embeded I mean that the zip archive ITSELF is a virus?
Like if a .exe file which happened to be a virus was archived and then unzipped, to infect, the .exe file must be clicked and opened. That is how it works. BUT, can the archive itself be a virus? Meaning that you don't even have to open the .exe file, all you have to do is just unzip it.
BTW, I'm talking about regular .zip files (nothing fancy like executable archives, .tars, .rars etc). The unzipper i'm using is the Windows built-in one.
By embeded I mean that the zip archive ITSELF is a virus?
Like if a .exe file which happened to be a virus was archived and then unzipped, to infect, the .exe file must be clicked and opened. That is how it works. BUT, can the archive itself be a virus? Meaning that you don't even have to open the .exe file, all you have to do is just unzip it.
BTW, I'm talking about regular .zip files (nothing fancy like executable archives, .tars, .rars etc). The unzipper i'm using is the Windows built-in one.