Hi Becca,

It sounds like the only “problem” you’re having is one we see here quite often, confusing reports with logs.

Logging keeps track of problems avast is finding within itself, or with trying to interact with other parts of your system – essentially operating errors. The “Info” log will typically become quite full, if you have that enabled, but the other log categories should normally remain more or less empty unless you’re running into serious problems.

Scan activity and its results are recorded in Records. There’s no quick-and-easy way to view those, unfortunately (in Home, anyway), unless you’ve just finished a scan and are still showing the summary results.

But they’re in the data\records folder under avast and are ordinary txt files, so you can view them thru Windows Explorer – stick a shortcut to that folder on your desktop, if you like, to make it a little simpler.

Best,
Mike