Hi there… I ran avast on my laptop - and it comes up with this:
“Unable to scan. The file is a decompression bomb” the other one says this: “Unable to scan. the file pointer cannot be set on the specified device or file”… my question is this… how on earth do you go about fixing this? i have googled it but can’t really find anything specific… people talk about suspending their avast… but how do you do that? any help would be awesome. thanks in advance! 
Hi,
stay away from your system, it’s going to blow up in 9…8…7…6…boom ;D
OK seriously, a decompression bomb is an archived file, too big and with a too high level of compression (eventually with sub archives) to be scanned by avast. The message doesn’t refer to malware at all, just to a file that can’t be technically scanned.
yes… but how do i get rid of it? and is it safe to do so? im not sure how to put avast into suspend mode?
you don’t have to get rid of anything. It’s a normal message. You’ll stop getting it by deleting the file, but hey, you might need that file (I guess you know which one it is). There’s nothing unsafe in your situation okay ? 
are you sure?
The name really is the most dangerous thing about this and I wish they would change it or simply not report it, a real PITA.
YES
Yeah, I agree with you… The name is the only bad thing about it…