Recently I learned that someone has injected an old virus signature into the bitcoin blockchain, though it does not run the chance of infecting the computer.
http://newsbtc.com/2014/05/16/virus-signature-uploaded-bitcoin-blockchain-causing-mse-users-grief/
This makes me wonder, if I were to install bitcoin-core and download a malicious bootstrap.dat file, would it be possible for it to infect my system through bitcoin?