Okay, what is this “ZIP Bomb” anyway?
A Zip bomb is a small file that only contains something like “42 Kilobytes”. However, when extracted, this can be, like, petabytes.
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How to make one yourself: What you will need
- A hard drive/SSD that is relatively large (eg., 2TB)
- Dummy File Creator
- 7-Zip
How to make one yourself: Step 1 – Create the junk
Now what you have to do is launch Dummy File Creator (Dummy.exe)
It will prompt you to size. Choose something like 30 Gigabytes. If it does not let you, choose 10.
Now click “Create”.
How to make one yourself: Step 2 – Make the folders
Now put the dummy file in a folder.
Duplicate the folder as much as you can.
Put that all in one folder.
How to make one yourself: Step 3 – Zipping it all up
Right-Click the folder with lots of other folders and go to 7-Zip > Add to [THAT FOLDERS NAME].zip\.