I lost 5GB of hard disk space after having updated to avast 2015, and I didn’t know why. After some check, I realized that a system image backup was created EVEN THOUGH I have turned off system restore since last year. I deleted that image backup and got back my free space, but after about 10~20 minutes, another image backup was created. I tried deleting it many times, but all the time that image backup came back after few minutes (of course, system restore was still turned off). This happened after I updated to avast 2015, then I decided to uninstall Avast. After uninstalling, no more image backup has been created up to now.
Does anyone encounter this problem?
It would be a hell of a lot easier if you’d just posted a link because if you search here for “NG” or “NG component” all you get is re-directed back to this thread. Even searching for “Avast NG” yields no results other than this forum thread.
This is what I found by Googling and is the most helpful explanation with links that I came across:-
Thank you for your reply. I’ve heard about NG before, but I ween that it is an virtualization technology, has nothing to do with system image backup. After reading your reply, I’ve started searching and found this article http://malwaretips.com/threads/avast-ng-what-is-it-avast-2015.35640/
It takes a snapshot of your drive thereby enhancing "Deepscreen"
Oh... ok...
Maybe “Avast Engine”? Because “NG” sounds similiar to it.