Avast! cant scan some files

DVD+R · May 24, 2010

When I ran a full system scan last night, avast! reported it could not scan some files, and on looking at the report it said this was in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Nero and that the file was a compression bomb What is it, and should I be concerned

Fuzzydice45 · May 24, 2010

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=60c31b1d9bbb23b936582f54357c3488&topic=32554.0

Decompression bomb is a file that may be rather small, but decompresses to an enormous amount of data (when processed as a packed archive). Such file are not malicious per se, but they may block an antivirus program when it tries to scan them.
This kind of files is rather hard to detect (and avoid) precisely - so, it is possible that there are some false alarms. It's not a big problem in this case, however - the "decompression bomb" announcement actually means something like "The file has a very high, maybe even suspicious, compression ratio and the AV is not going to scan the archive content".
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I wouldn't worry about it

DVD+R · May 24, 2010

Thanks Fuzzydice45, It had me wondering as to why Nero would include such a file, but as its just as it says, I'll ignore it

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