: By "distracting" the antivirus scanner with the massive decompression task, other real malware may sneak past the scanner while the system is bogged down. 4. Modern Defenses
: If the software detects that a 1MB file is trying to expand into 1GB, it will flag the file as a "Decompression Bomb" and halt the process. nickel.zip
: 42.zip was a 42-kilobyte file that expanded to 4.5 petabytes (4,503,599,627,370,496 bytes) of data. : By "distracting" the antivirus scanner with the
While "nickel.zip" is a newer or alternative naming convention, it follows the lineage of the famous . nickel.zip