Hi, love avast, scanner scans more files than Windows reports on harddrive

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:slight_smile: Hi :slight_smile: …on a laptop with a 20gb harddrive of 19.9GB capacity 9.7GB of used space the rest is free space. The finished scan reports 22.2GBs of files scanned … :smiley: lol :smiley: … the scan is set to scan the C drive only.
I have been given the laptop by my nephew.
It did have lots of :-X on it and thanks to :)Avast and :)Trend Micro and :)Widows Live One Care free online scans the laptop has very much recovered and is operating quite well with only 256MBs of ddr266 memory…it has been cleaned and CheckDisk has been run and the operating system is quite tidy now ;D
hi :slight_smile: what could be happening… ??? the scan report reports 22Bs of files?
hi :slight_smile:

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Just a guess. You did a ‘Thorough Scan’ including archives?

This thread might help. http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=37063.0

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:slight_smile: yes , that thread clearly explains why Avast scans more files than Windows would normally report finding in a harddrive.

…hmm, now I want to know how to remove compressed files from a harddrive…
hmm…lol…I don’t suppose that ever really matters seeing as the files may be getting compressed to a very small size or area, but there is so many of them so I wonder…

What do you think about that?

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If the compressed archive files contain your last 5 years income tax return details then it probably wouldn’t be a good idea deleting them, or maybe it might depending on what YOU think.

It’s your computer, what you choose to keep on it is a matter for you to decide. No one else can answer this for you, particularly when you don’t give any details about the files that that you are thinking of removing.

If they are compressed archive files they aren’t doing anything except taking up some space on your hard drive. They may be files needed for restoration processes for example by a spyware detection product, or system recovery files. They could also be user data files that you have zipped up to keep them together as archival information. As a general rule, if you don’t know what they are, or don’t understand what their purpose is, then leave them alone until you do, and you won’t get into trouble.

Hope this helps :slight_smile: