: In most reported cases, the archive was either a "zip bomb" (a file designed to crash a system by expanding into petabytes of data) or contained a simple Trojan horse virus. Why It Became "Famous"

: The title "Eternal War" suggests a grand, never-ending conflict, which appealed to the edgy aesthetic of early 2000s message boards.

: These files use recursive compression to hide massive amounts of junk data, which can freeze a computer's CPU or fill its hard drive instantly upon extraction.