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Can you get a virus/keylogger/malware or anything from opening a .zip file?

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21-Oct-2009, 11:09 PM #1
Can you get a virus/keylogger/malware or anything from opening a .zip file?
Yeah.. When you extract something to a location, WITHOUT opening the files in the zip folder, can you get any of the above by doing that? Remember, not opening the files that the zip files contain, just extracting.
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22-Oct-2009, 03:54 AM #2
extracting is getting what is inside the zip and that is the same as opening.

And if anything bad is in it you can get something and you should scan anything you download or get from a CD, flash drive etc.
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