Think Zip Folders are only Used to Compress files/folders? You are in for Shocker on Other Amazing use of zip folders

Zip folder is no new name in the computing world today, and you don’t need to be extremely techie to know that the most common use of zip folders is to compress files/folders into smaller sizes for easier and faster distribution across the web and also transfer from one device to another.

In fact that is the only thing that most people use zip folder for or you can simply say that it is the fundamental use of zip folders.

In dealing zip folders, since Zip folders consist of compressed files/folders, the first thing you need is another application that will unzip or extract those compressed files in them before you can make use of the files/folders.

And we have varieties of such apps across the web and mobile that can extract zip folders; we have apps like win-zip for windows, and others that extract zip folders on android devices etc.

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But our major focus for today is to tell you the other amazing function of zip folder that you might not be aware of.

Apart from the compression of your normal files/folders for easier and faster distribution across the web, zip folders can also be used as a shield to share security threat files/folders that are false positive, meaning that with zip folders you can easily distribute and have such files downloaded from cloud storage and other distribution mediums.

Now let’s throw more light on what we have just said above…There are some application files although free from any sort of malware and virus, but because of the way the application files were encoded, many anti-virus software sees such files as security threat.

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Hence, when distributing such files through e-mails, cloud storage mediums that incorporates anti-virus in them, such files are often trapped on the way as security threat and you will not be allowed to distribute such files, whereas, they are clean and virus/malware free files/folders.

But now, with zip folders, you can easily get such files across as the zip folders usually act as shield in handling those files/folders.

For example, there are small files that really don’t need to be compressed before distribution, but if you encounter a scenario that is described above, you then have to put those files in zip folders for easier distribution.

All you need to do is to compress such files/folder as zip folder before distributing and you will see that it will bypass every anti-virus protection and have your files delivered/shared without any hiccups.