Just scanned with Avast Antivirus Home edition and it found a decompression bomb.The file is C:\System Volume Information_restore{1AB3FECC-7E83-4BFE-B8D0-9261CB1A7883}\RP235\A0043432.exe\Disk 1\data2.cab .I could not find it!Can anyone tell me how to delete it please?!! :o ???
The only way I remove a bad system restore file is to turn the option off, reboot, turn the option back on. I then set a new sysrem restore point. Turning off and then back on system restore is the recommended method for deleting one or more bad system restore points.
Besides, a decompression bomb is just something that unpacks to an unusually big amount of data even though it’s rather small (i.e. has a high compression ratio, for example). It’s nothing to worry about, you are just informed that avast! will not try to unpack the archive (you may not even know that it’s an archive, but it seems like it is) because it may take VERY long to process.
(quoted from Igor: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=15389.msg131213#msg131213)
Don’t worry that much.
Oh thanks! ;D
Tech,
thanks for the explanation/link re: “decompression bomb”.
i’ve been getting that on some legitimate income-tax related files… so i knew that it wasn’t a real threat… but i was still wondering what the nefarious-sounding terminology meant.
I had the same issue with the terminology when I first came across it.
Avast seems to use “drama queen” error warnings that are unhelpful and unnecessarily confusing to end users, and seem to merely serve to amuse insiders. Another example that I encountered recently is “tried to extract ‘LangMai.dll’ from pkg ‘av_pro_dll409’ but failed miserably.” Failed Miserably? Please. How about just telling me why the extraction failed?
I suggest that they change them to something clear and helpful.
Man… we can`t understand error messages… why are the programmers so closed to themselves in these issues?
I don’t understand what to do with a decompression bomb? Mine is in C:\Documents and settings.…Ancien~2MPG. I did a search to find it and came up with it in 95 systems folders. I am very new at this but would like to learn! :-[ ???
The short answer is nothing.
Decompression Bomb, a file that is highly compressed, which could be very large when decompressed. This used to be a tactic long ago to swamp the system.
Files that can’t be scanned are just that, not an indication they are suspicious/infected, just unable to be scanned.
Thanks for being there! Just a beginning to learn!
No problem, glad I could help.
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