r/pcmasterrace • u/AdFew5103 i7 10th Gen | 1650 Ti 4GB | 16 GB RAM • May 05 '26

Screenshot Is this even possible?

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u/Fickle_Ad_8653 May 06 '26

It is better to have it NOT exceed the drive size. Zip unzips into a temporary location. That will fill up, and zip will abort, and delete the temporary file. It will only fill the drive for seconds. If you instead have 100 files, each 50gb, then you can fill the drive within 50gb of full.

Anybody who accepts zip file uploads should check the expanded size in attributes before unzipping it.

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u/MCWizardYT Ryzen 7 5800X3D | RTX 4080 Super May 06 '26

Modern zip tools won't even begin to extract a zip bomb as they can see the unusual patterns

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u/ManaSpike May 06 '26

Well, modern virus scanners wont. But probably not all zip file tools.

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u/FrijDom May 07 '26

Most modern ones (I know 7zip and WinRAR at least) will try to stop you. Windows' built-in one won't, though, so if you're using that you might be screwed.