.zip file problems please help

[Mten]

Ok here's the problem. I was downloading a music file in .zip format, and I guessed somewhere I screwed up trying to open it up. Now I can not open anymore ZIP files and my computer is password pprotected and I don't have the password. Is there anyway to fix this problem?

[smeezekitty]

sounds like a virus

[ubermensch]

for future reference, .zip is a compressed archive that could contain anything, not a media type. (and it irks me so much when people put compressed media in a compressed archive, but oh well)

but it's strange, I wouldn't think you could get a virus simply by opening an archive unless it was exploiting a vulnerability in a certain archive handler.

haha, did this archive perhaps have a freeandlegalmusicdownload.mp3.exe file in it?

and is this a bios password or windows password that it wants?

[Salmon Trout]

Or maybe the OP has hide file extensions enabled and it was "bikini babes video.zip.exe"?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

If you download music from P2P software (like Kazza or Limewire ect) a .zip file will almost certainly be a virus.

I suggest going here:
http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html

Post the three logs in the Computer Virus and Spyware Section, not in this topic.

[Salmon Trout]

Another trick is a Rar containing a readme.txt and a further passworded RAR where you have to go to a website (url in the readme) to get the "password". The website drops a trojan, and the password is fake, and the RAR contains dummy data.