WIC (fake compressed archive)

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File Format
Name WIC (fake compressed archive)
Ontology
Extension(s) .wic
Released 1996

WIC (also written WiC) (Wavelet Intelligent Compressor) is a DOS program, and its native .WIC format. It is a prank that pretends to be a compressed archive utility, but isn't really.

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WIC's behavior is just believable enough that it's not obvious that it's fake.

At least one of WIC's tricks is to store some or all of the file data in a secret file it creates at C:\WINDOWS\WINFILE.DLL.

Identification

WIC files start with ASCII "WICA" (at least for v0.6b).

[TODO: How to identify the WINFILE.DLL file.]

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