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| 463918 | 2006-06-17 15:11:00 | Hi Anyone here use Avast and got a result saying 'Unable to scan. The file is a decompression bomb' What is this decompressiong bomb? Shall I get rid of it? Is it a malware on anykind? Thanks. |
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| 463919 | 2006-06-17 16:05:00 | Hi Anyone here use Avast and got a result saying 'Unable to scan. The file is a decompression bomb' What is this decompressiong bomb? Shall I get rid of it? Is it a malware on anykind? Thanks. I Googled "Decompression Bomb" and found several sites that more or less explain it. Such a 'bomb' may download as a 5MB file and turn into a 100GB file when it is decompressed. Such a file is likely to exceed your computers capacity causing problems. I guess that is the intent! :horrified See here_ www.google.co.nz |
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| 463920 | 2006-06-17 20:22:00 | Anyone here use Avast and got a result saying 'Unable to scan. The file is a decompression bomb'. You would think that any AV would at least have the option to delete the file. Have you done this manually? |
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