sailor_sega_saturn t1_j2cx838 wrote
Reply to comment by Officialsparxx in ELI5: How web crawlers and other engines don’t constantly get infected with viruses? by Officialsparxx
A crawler is only vulnerable to the input that it tries to parse or execute. Wayback Machine may archive windows executables, but it's certainly just treating them as binary bytes if so, and wouldn't even know how to execute them.
So I'd expect Wayback Machine to be immune to downloads to weird executables.
^(The user who downloads and runs the archived file on the other hand...)
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