Avast Error 42110 The File Is A Decompression Bomb
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Decompression Bomb Virus
viewing this topic. mef83049 Newbie Posts: 1 what should I do with err decompression bomb removal 42110 messages? « on: December 26, 2008, 04:51:14 PM » My first scan resulted in numerous err 42110 how to get rid of a decompression bomb messages.What should I do with those files? delete? move? etc.for example:older/aug24index.zip/bizequity-aug24-index err 42110Part of package: does not belong to any packageolder/aug24mysqldump.zip
Cimmanifest Decompression Bomb
err 42110Part of package: does not belong to any package Logged Eddy Avast Evangelist Maybe Bot Posts: 23148 Watching (over?) you Re: what should I do with err 42110 messages? « Reply #1 on: December 26, 2008, 05:16:09 PM » error 42110 means that avast! thinks that a file it is trying to scan is a
Cimmanifest.exe Decompression Bomb
'decompression bomb'This means that it's an archive file (eg a ZIP file) which has a very high compression ratio, so it will potentially grow to be VERY big, and use up all possible memory. They're often used in DoS attacks on virus scanners, so avast! is detecting it and refusing to scan the archive to avoid crashing the system. Logged Online scanners (URL/File/Java/others) - INDEPENDENT support (chat) Lisandro Avast team Certainly Bot Posts: 66681 Re: what should I do with err 42110 messages? « Reply #2 on: December 26, 2008, 05:17:45 PM » If you set the report only to 'infected files' and not for hard/soft errors, we can narrow down these messages.Also, files that can't be scanned aren't infected by themselves, just couldn't be scanned, nothing more.Decompression bomb is a file that may be rather small, but decompresses to an enormous amount of data (when processed as a packed archive). Such file are not malicious per se, but they may block an antivirus program when it tries to scan them.This kind of files is rather hard to detect (and avoid) precisely - so, i
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Cimmanifest.xml Decompression Bomb
This post has been reported. hi Could someone please let me know why when i scan my computer cimmanifest.exe error with avast it says error decompression bomb.I have 2 files ,i reset my computer back to factory settings. scanned with mcafee,norton and avg and scanned and there was no problem, but then https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=41289.0 i scanned with avast again and they were still there. they are in windows backup i really dont know whether to just leave them, mcafee, norton and avg say nothing wrong but avast still says there is a problem Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top GuiltySpark Posts: 4024 This post has been reported. Hi life , Welcome to HTG , Please see http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/decompression-bombs here : http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=8943 Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top warlock Posts: 4100 This post has been reported. http://www.help2go.com/forum/c.....-bomb.html Looks like an Avast thing. Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top whs Posts: 17584 This post has been reported. Backup files are usually compressed. Apparently Avast cannot deal with them. I would just ignore it. Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top life Posts: 2 This post has been reported. i think i may just ignore them mcafee and norton scan compressed files and found no problem. i also scanned my comp using Malwarebytes and that also found nothing. If anyone can suggest anything else i would be very gratefull thanks Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top Topic Closed This topic has been closed to new replies. ABOUT About Us Contact Us Discussion Forum Advertising Privacy Policy GET ARTICLES BY EMAIL Enter your email address to get our daily newsletter. FOLLOW US Twitter Facebook Google+ RSS Feed Disclaimer: Most of the pages on the internet include affiliate links, including some on this site. Copyright © 2006-2016 How-To Geek, LLC All Rights Reserved
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