> crazily enough my install of GoLang on a windows box has a file that gets flagged as a compression bomb every full system scan.

This may have something to do with Russ Cox's blog post on recursive zip-archives "Zip Files All The Way Down" in Go: http://research.swtch.com/zip

Baseless speculation mode: There is a possibility that the recursive zip file was part of the Go test cases for the gzip package at some point. If it lingers in the mercurial commit history, it may still trigger hits from your AV software.