[ Tutorial ] Make a Zip Bomb

   

    Let’s take a look at how to create your very own zip bomb. It’s soo easy :

In WINDOWS 

• Open up a text editor.
• Start typing zeros (0).Many times. just keep the button pressed. Nearly keep your button pressed till it reached 1000 times.
• Now select the whole thing (CTRL+A) and copy (CTRL+C) and paste(CTRL+V). And paste it many times till it reaches millions of Zeros.Do it slowly because some low powered systems may start hanging or lagging because of tooo many Zeros. So be careful and keep going.

Save it and close your text editor.

• Go to the folder where your text file is stored, make around as many copies as you want ( many copies will make bomb size bigger) copies of the text file in the same folder. 

• Now open up a command prompt where your text file is stored and.     

           type:   copy /b *.txt combined.txt

• What this does is combine all the copies of the text files into one.  Using the command line, everything happens as a background process without a hiccup.
•  Combining ten files of 10MB will yield one 100MB file, combine ten copies of that and you have a 1GB text file full of zeros in just a few seconds.Continue the process if you want more bigger size but remember your system will hang on though. 
• Now, open up your compression app (any if you have WinZip, WinRar, 7-zip etc.) and compress the text file.
• Hold on to your dropping jaw as you’ll likely see a compression rate of around 99.9% (1000 times reduction in file size), the 1 GB file would be around 1 MB compressed.
• Now some final step of copy-pasting is left. Make a dozen or so copies of the zip file. Now zip them again. 
• Make a few copies of this new zip file and zip all the copies.Keep on compressing all the copied folders. Be sure that now your 1 copy of file become 1gb, So if you are a begineer copy only 3-4 times and Compress/zip it.
• And there we go. 

          In this way you can create a zip bomb of your own sizes. This tutorial is for windows, but you can also make it in Linux through the following steps :

In LINUX

  ▶ Type the following in Terminal of Linux

      dd if=/dev/zero bs=1000 count=1000000 | gzip >test.gz

      Send it to your friends and it will definitely annoy them . Use some creativity and rename the text file into some thing like My first letter for you.jpg and compress it and E-mail  to your friends.

   You must also know about the most famous zip bomb in the internet. Its is named as 42.zip (type password as 42 while extracting it,  as it is locked to prevent from newbie) 

 Here is the link for some famous zip bomb :

  ⏩ 42.zip --------Download here

          (actual size=4.3gb)

       

If you go on extracting all files, you will run out of space.

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