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» Print Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 6 Go Down Author Topic: What is a decompression bomb. (Read 307752 times) 0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic. justfoo Newbie Posts: 3 avast error 42110 What is a decompression bomb. « on: November 19, 2004, 04:15:27 PM
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» Just did my first scan with Avast home version. The first line in the "Results of last scan" avast error the file is a decompression bomb. 42110 is: "Unable to scan: The file is a decompression bomb" , this is for a file named COMMS1.cdb. I know what this file is and it is legit, or at least
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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 me what a "decompression bomb" is?Thank you in advance. Logged igor decompression bomb 42110 Avast team Serious Graphoman Posts: 11518 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 apparently small file (50 or 100K, if I remember) which would have eventually expanded, if disk space and memory were available, to a
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Posts: 2 This post has been reported. hi Could someone please let me know why when i scan cimmanifest.xml decompression bomb my computer 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 https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=8943.0 problem, but then 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 , http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/decompression-bombs Welcome to HTG , Please see 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
of it will not work correctly without it enabled. Please turn JavaScript back on and reload this page. Please enter a title. You can not post a blank message. Please type your message and try again. More discussions in Drivers & Software Where is this place https://community.amd.com/thread/198734 located?CommunityAll PlacesSupport ForumsDrivers & Software 4 Replies Latest reply on Apr 6, 2016 http://www.help2go.com/forum/computer-help/105101-avast-decompression-bomb.html 4:57 AM by lawfus Avast AV says that cimmanifest.exe is a decompression bomb. What should I do? lawfus Apr 5, 2016 10:50 AM My Avast anti-virus says that it cannot scan cimmanifest.exe/>INSDIR/manifest.xml because it is a decompression bomb. What is going on? What would happen if I deleted that file? decompression bomb 1707Views Tags: none (add) This content has been marked as final. Show 4 replies Re: Avast AV says that cimmanifest.exe is a decompression bomb. What should I do? tomtalk24 Apr 5, 2016 12:30 PM (in response to lawfus) Disable AV or add it to exceptions list. Its fine, Avast needs updating probably.You shouldn't need the files in the pre driver install unpack file is a location. So that whole folder could be deleted if you wanted.EDIT:Just make sure you only delete stuff from the unpack folder and not whats in use by the post driver install, check the location of the file its moaning about. Like Show 0 Likes(0) Actions Re: Avast AV says that cimmanifest.exe is a decompression bomb. What should I do? ray_m Apr 5, 2016 2:20 PM (in response to lawfus) From the Avast forums:Decompression bomb just means the files/archives/SFX get unpacked into unreasonably large file. Though it's not impossible that avast! is detecting something wrong... Like Show 0 Likes(0) Actions Re: Avast AV says that cimmanifest.exe is a decompression bomb. What should I do? kingfish Apr 5, 2016 5:49 PM (in response to lawfus) It's not a bit odd..happens all the time. Especially with Norton, McAfee, and Avast. Like Show 0 Likes(0) Actions Re: Avast AV says that cimmanifest.exe is a decompression bomb. What should I do? lawfus Apr 6, 2016 4:57 AM (in response to lawfus) Thank you all! Tomtalk, you were right about no problem from deleting the files. Problem solved! Like Show 0
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 2004 Location London, UK Posts 929 Points 56 Avast and decompression bomb?? Strange result on 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 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 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 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 (the only other file of that name in the Logs folder is the .txt file)? And if I delete it, will it be recreated and need deleting again from time to time or will marking it rea