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| Concern | Mitigation | |---------|-------------| | ( -P ) | Visible in ps /tasklist. Use -e interactive mode. | | Legacy encryption (ZipCrypto) | Vulnerable to known-plaintext attacks. Use AES-256 via -P ? No – Info-ZIP zip.exe does not support AES. For AES, use 7-Zip or PowerShell. | | Path traversal risks | Zip entries may contain ..\ paths. Validate with unzip -t or sanitize inputs. | | Malicious file extraction | Avoid unzip with -j (junk paths) on untrusted archives. |

| Error | Solution | |-------|----------| | 'zip' is not recognized | Add the folder containing zip.exe to PATH, or specify full path: C:\Tools\zip.exe | | zip I/O error: Permission denied | Run Command Prompt as Administrator, or change output directory to your user folder (not C:\ root) | | bad CRC ... (continue) | The source file might be corrupted or in use by another process. Close the file and retry. | | zip warning: name not matched | Use quotes around wildcards: zip archive "*.txt" | zip.exe for windows

Open PowerShell (not Command Prompt) and use the following command: | Concern | Mitigation | |---------|-------------| | (