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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: WisconsinHockeyDude on August 29, 2011, 10:12:14 PM

Title: freepdfconverter decompression bomb
Post by: WisconsinHockeyDude on August 29, 2011, 10:12:14 PM

Has anyone else used this program and had the root scan find this?  AppCrash_FreePDFConverter_e6cf7e6bf5de9e881e54362c82b9f8eba71b456_0379ae4d [this file is a decompression bomb]

Title: Re: freepdfconverter decompression bomb
Post by: Pondus on August 29, 2011, 11:16:12 PM

quote Igor

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- 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.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=15389.msg131213#msg131213

Title: Re: freepdfconverter decompression bomb
Post by: dragonlover on September 06, 2011, 01:50:14 AM

So when Avast says "error decompression bomb" you can't do anything with it? This is the first time I've seen this and I'm not sure what to do.

Title: Re: freepdfconverter decompression bomb
Post by: Pondus on September 06, 2011, 02:22:32 AM

Quote from: dragonlover on September 06, 2011, 01:50:14 AM

So when Avast says "error decompression bomb" you can't do anything with it? This is the first time I've seen this and I'm not sure what to do.

well if you know whats inside the compressed file, then it is not a problem...you do what ever you want....



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