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Fontbase avast says compression bomb1/14/2024 ![]() ![]() If anyone could advise as to wether or not all is as it should be, it would be much appreciated. I downloaded a game called 'Rigs of Rods,' and I scanned it and avast says there is a decompression bomb in it. cab file manually (I guess installers, etc usually deal with those), I'm not really sure what to make of it. So as stated in the title, a decompression bomb is located in a game I downloaded, which by the way, I have not unrard the file yet. Chances are it is not infected, just unable to be scanned because of the compression of it. It is simply a file with an unusually high compression ratio or routine. ![]() ![]() cab files, and since I've never had a need to "unpack" a. I have see posts here that the most dangerous thing about a 'decompression bomb' is the terminology. So my question is this: is this something I should be concerned about? It didn't list the dvd image itself as the decompression bomb, just the. Decompression bombs are supercompressed large files. I haven't been able to find much information on decompression bombs either here in the forums, help, or just online in general, other than the general gist that they expand by a ridiculous amount when unpacked, potentially locking up your system and/or causing you to lose data, I guess? Decompression bomb is not, in most cases, a virus. cab files (data2, data3, data4) located within an iso DVD image. It returned "unable to scan: file is a decompression bomb" in the results screen. I am, however, having a hard time finding detailed information about something avast! is telling me after my most recent scan. In other words, it is a file that looks small as a result of multiple. Hello, I am a new user of avast! and so far have no complaints. A decompression bomb is a highly compressed archive of a large amount of uncompressed data. ![]()
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