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Other => Viruses and worms => Topic started by: donmac71 on August 03, 2013, 10:47:37 PM

Title: error 42125
Post by: donmac71 on August 03, 2013, 10:47:37 PM

When doing a boot scan there is a message in each section:
error 42125 [zip archive is corrupted]
Is there a fix for that?

donmac71

Title: Re: error 42125
Post by: Pondus on August 03, 2013, 11:08:04 PM

not something avast can fix
this is just a scan error report. avast may say corrupted for zip archives it can not open and scan

why do you run a boot scan, any problems?

Title: Re: error 42125
Post by: donmac71 on August 04, 2013, 03:39:21 AM

I do a Boot scan once a month and on one occasion I found 3 infections.

Title: Re: error 42125
Post by: Muad'Dib on August 04, 2013, 03:49:36 AM

donmac71, Is the ZIP file password protected? Some programs that simply can't open a password protected archive 'think' the archive is corrupted. I'm not sure if Avast behaves that way, but it's possible.

If the cause of this error is due to password protected ZIP files, then you can choose "Settings" from the Boot-time scan section, and uncheck the "Unpack archive files" option. Then it will just ignore all your packed (ZIP, 7Z, etc.) files during a boot-time scan (you can still scan the unencrypted archive files during a regular scan, just put the pastword protected ones in your exclusion list so you don't get error messages for those archives).