Avast! Found A Decompression Bomb!

[Lisandro]

At least now I have a better understanding of what had happened so that if\when something like that happens again I'll know what to do about it and I won't delete anything too quick.

Wendy, living and learning. That's our way of life

[theImmaculate]

hey,
i found one of these decompression bombs and I've read the forum but i still have no idea what to do with it.
can someone help me?

-theImmaculate

[DavidR]

Short answer, nothing, as this topic indicates, it is just a file that when unpacked to be scanned would be very large.

To be of any more help we need more information, like the file name and its location.

[Lisandro]

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)

I'd suggest to ignore these files.
But you can change values into avast4.ini file to configure how avast should work with these files.
Click 'Settings' in my signature for more info 

[theImmaculate]

OK so the file name for this decompression bomb is
C:\ProgramData\WildTangent\My HP Game Console\Downloads\en-us\Updates\htdocs-img2.tgz_cache\htdocs-img2

thats all i know

also my computer has been restarting on its own.
a blue screen shows up and i don't know what to do.
please help!

theImmaculate

[Lisandro]

Write down the error message and numbers of the blue screen.
Then you can Google or post it here...