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RUSS_Martinson

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decompression Bomb
« on: August 20, 2005, 10:59:09 PM »
I have had Avast installed for several months now, It's great.  I need to better understand the files flagged as "Decompression Bombs" .  Are they dangerous? Should I delete them? How should they be treated? 

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Russ
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Offline Lisandro

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Re: decompression Bomb
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2005, 01:04:45 AM »
Here http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=1647 you can find more info about the decompression bombs. Shortly, just a prevention of the antivirus to avoid colapse of the system when a small archive generates tons of files of very big size and try to scan them.
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