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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: skinandb0nes on March 23, 2014, 09:44:59 PM
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Today I made a backup of my iPhone in iTunes so iTunes made a copy of my downloaded apps (all legit apps like facebook, instagram, twitter etc from their original developers) and it safed the copy somewhere on my computer. I ran a full scan with avast on my computer and one file couldn't get scanned, because it's a "decompressionbomb" according to avast. When I clicked the results, it showed up that it was about a part of the facebook app for my iPhone. Since I downloaded it from the original appstore from apple and it's the original facebook app I'm pretty sure that it can't be malware (right?) but what is a decompressionbomb? Should I worry about that?
* Sorry for the typo, I meant decompressionbomb.
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...but what is a decompressionbomb?
It's a highly packed archive.
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...but what is a decompressionbomb?
It's a highly packed archive.
Is it anything malicious?
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Is it anything malicious?
Nope.
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Is it anything malicious?
Nope.
k, thanks!
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You're welcome.
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...but what is a decompressionbomb?
It's a highly packed archive.
Also a old trick to crash AV scanners.... lots of info if you know how to google