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A ‘ decompression bomb’ is a term given to archive files (RAR or ZIP) that have a very high compression ratio. These files have the potential to grow to be very big once they are extracted and possibly use up all the memory.
This is not necessarily a virus. If the contents are unpacked, the AVG file shield will scan them for any malicious content.