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New malware called "heuristic.archive.bomb"? windowz6 05-21-2007
Posted by windowz6 on May 21, 2007, 12:59 am
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Installed A-Squared Pro recently and upon scanning it found several
instances of what it calls "heuristic.archive.bombs which, as per my
non-techie understanding, means a file that may be very small (maybe a
few megs) but may essentially expand to several gigs in size, so much
so that the sheer size bogs-down or incapacitates the infected
machine.

Is this a new type of malware?


Posted by Bart Bailey on May 21, 2007, 2:09 am
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posted on 20 May 2007 21:59:21 -0700, windowz6 wrote: Begin

>Installed A-Squared Pro recently and upon scanning it found several
>instances of what it calls "heuristic.archive.bombs which, as per my
>non-techie understanding, means a file that may be very small (maybe a
>few megs) but may essentially expand to several gigs in size, so much
>so that the sheer size bogs-down or incapacitates the infected
>machine.
>
>Is this a new type of malware?

You mean something like 42.zip?

--

Bart

Posted by David H. Lipman on May 21, 2007, 6:53 am
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| Installed A-Squared Pro recently and upon scanning it found several
| instances of what it calls "heuristic.archive.bombs which, as per my
| non-techie understanding, means a file that may be very small (maybe a
| few megs) but may essentially expand to several gigs in size, so much
| so that the sheer size bogs-down or incapacitates the infected
| machine.

| Is this a new type of malware?


Not neccessarily a small ZIP that expands to a large file but can be; an archive
within an
archive, within an archive, whithin and archive, etc, etc.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



Posted by Bullseye on May 26, 2007, 4:17 am
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On 20 May 2007 21:59:21 -0700, windowz6 wrote:

> Installed A-Squared Pro recently and upon scanning it found several
> instances of what it calls "heuristic.archive.bombs which, as per my
> non-techie understanding, means a file that may be very small (maybe a
> few megs) but may essentially expand to several gigs in size, so much
> so that the sheer size bogs-down or incapacitates the infected
> machine.
>
> Is this a new type of malware?

What other security products do you have installed? A-Squared flagged my
NOD32 installer as one of those. Need to be careful with A-Squared, as it
is notorious for finding false positives. Make sure to check the path of
the file, as it may be perfectly legit.

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