Avast Premium: Leaves several folders in my PROGRAM FILES (x86).

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi Everybody,
I’m discovering that Avast Premium is creating and filling folders right in the PROGRAM FILES (x86) directory.

Each of these new folders is named G*.tmp and blocks about 20-30 MB in my storage.

Can anyone explain or even direct me to an Avast produced KB article?

Many thanks,
Paul

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Do you mean the C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast\x86 folder ?

A screenshot might help, as I don’t see it in my x86 folder. But then I’m only using avast free…

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Hi David,

You’re right. The directory is C:/Program Files (x86)/

All of the G*.tmp directories are off this general root directory.
GUM*.tmp

Regards,
-Paul-

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Strange, mind you I don’t know if these could be related to some of the Avast Premium components not in Avast Free.

How old are these G*.tmp folders and any file contents ?

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How do you know that those folders are created by Avast? Do you know what process?

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i know the directories are created by AVAST! because they are full of AVAST! files

I’m gonna erase them anyway. Thanks, Guys

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What files in particular? Can you give us a few examples of the exact filenames?

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Seems to be related to ASB updates, see: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=235373.0