At this point I hope that everyone has heard of a zip file. How about an rar file? A daa file? Well they all fall under the category of file compression applications.
Believe it or not file compression was originally considered a virus because the definition of a computer virus is something that alters the content of a data file. In this case its a good thing :)
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