Vista-Decompression Bomb File

[amanda2484]

Hi

I was downloading itunes when IE opened with a huge amount of tabs. After that I had had some issues. I did a scan and it said it was unable to scan:

D:\preload\BASE11.WIM\_A2A9F4D2FD4A407F8CF6E547FC0BDBF4

The file is stated that is is a decompression bomb.

The D: is my recovery drive. It will not allow me to delete the file and it is taking up about 9 GBs of space.

Can you help me?

Thank
Amanda

[DavidR]

Decompression Bomb, a file that is highly compressed, which could be very large when decompressed. This used to be a tactic long ago to swamp the system, see http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=8943.msg73950#msg73950

So in the case of a .wim file. it could be huge when unpacked to enable scanning, really it would be better it is didn't use the explosive term decompression bomb as it scares people half to death.

Don't delete this (even assuming you could) the whole idea of the recovery partition is to enable you to restore the system back to the factory defaults (how it first was when you got it) should you ever experience a serious problem. However you would probably need help with this from their support if there is no manual to follow.

Files that can't be scanned are just that, not an indication they are suspicious/infected, just unable to be scanned.