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: Those brave (or foolish) enough to download it claimed it contained a series of highly disturbing, nonsensical videos and audio files. Some versions of the story say the file was "endless," and unzipping it would eventually crash a computer or fill the hard drive with terabytes of gibberish.

: The name itself is just a hexadecimal or sequential string. Many legitimate software installers or database backups use similar naming conventions (00000001, 00000002, etc.). 00000005.rar

: Often, when people find old, broken .rar files, their decompression software throws errors or produces "glitched" files. In the early web era, these technical glitches were easily romanticized into horror stories. : Those brave (or foolish) enough to download