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» Print Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 6 Go Down Author Topic: What is a decompression bomb. (Read 306245 times) 0 Members and 3 Guests are viewing this topic. decompression bomb 42110 justfoo Newbie Posts: 3 What is a decompression bomb. « on: November decompression bomb removal 19, 2004, 04:15:27 PM » Just did my first scan with Avast home version. The first line in
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the "Results of last scan" is: "Unable to scan: The file is a decompression bomb" , this is for a file named COMMS1.cdb. I know what this file is
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and it is legit, or at least a file named that belongs where it is lol.There are hundreds of files with ext cdb in the same area as this one, yet it is the only one with this error.This is a Win XP pro machine and I have done the file compression to increase my drive capacity.Can anyone tell cimmanifest decompression bomb me what a "decompression bomb" is?Thank you in advance. Logged igor Avast team Serious Graphoman Posts: 11517 Re:What is a decompression bomb. « Reply #1 on: November 19, 2004, 04:20:54 PM » A decompression bomb is a file that unpacks to an enormous amount of data - thus "flooding" the unpacking engine. It's quite hard to detect such files reliably, so it's possible that it gives some false alarms ocassionally. Logged justfoo Newbie Posts: 3 Re:What is a decompression bomb. « Reply #2 on: November 19, 2004, 04:25:35 PM » Thanks very much for your quick reply Logged MikeBCda Avast Evangelist Super Poster Posts: 2252 Re:What is a decompression bomb. « Reply #3 on: November 19, 2004, 09:03:58 PM » Typically such a bomb is a multi-level packing thing -- data's compressed with one packer (e.g. into a zip), then the resulting archive file is in turn packed (usually with a different packer), and so on several times.We had a thread here a while back reporting avast and system crashes from trying to scan an app
and decompression bomb?? Results 1 to 10 of 10 Thread: Avast and decompression bomb?? LinkBack LinkBack URL About LinkBacks Thread Tools Show Printable Version Email this Page… Subscribe to this Thread… 12-29-200905:20 AM #1 Steph Member Join Date Oct
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2004 Location London, UK Posts 929 Points 56 Avast and decompression bomb?? Strange result on amd cimmanifest decompression bomb my latest Avast scan: C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs\tvDebug.zip\tvDebug_2009-12-15-18-56-36.log Unable to scan : The file is a decompression bomb I know that a decompression bomb is how to get rid of a decompression bomb a zipped file that when unzipped releases a very large amount of data but I don’t know whether this file is legitimate and the result of the scan is (yet another) false positive and or if it’s potentially https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=8943.0 malicious and should be deleted. I don’t recognise the file itself but I’m also confused that its an Internet Log – I use CCleaner at the end of each day so shouldn’t all internet files be deleted? And if it’s a log, what’s creating it? Please could someone advise what I should do with it and whether it’s safe to delete and if so, the safest way to do this? Thank you. Steph Today is http://www.help2go.com/forum/computer-help/105101-avast-decompression-bomb.html the dawn of another error ... Intel Core i3-3240 @ 3.4GHz; RAM 8.0 GB; Windows 7 Home Prem SP1 64 bit Firefox; IE11 Reply With Quote 12-29-200905:42 AM #2 arraknid Moderator Forum Moderator Join Date Dec 2006 Location France Posts 6,154 Points 1293 Blog Entries4 Hi Steph, If you are still using it, the file is created by ZA and is perfectly normal. It contains details of ZA activity and should only be a small size 5 - 25Mb. I'd say it is a false positive, but if you wish, you can delete it. Avast tends to label things in that way when it can't access the file to scan it. To prevent it reappearing and taking up disk space, you can shut it down. This will explain. That said, it does no harm and can be left as is. Come down off the ceiling yet? If your problem is solved, here's how to say thanks! Reply With Quote 12-29-200910:56 AM #3 Steph Member Join Date Oct 2004 Location London, UK Posts 929 Points 56 No, still floating - must be all that champagne! Thanks for the advice - when I looked at your link, the third file in the Internet Logs folder on the list to mark as read only in the instructions was tvDebug.log - is that the zipped folder named tvDebug (t
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