They are in the “C:\WINDOWS\Temp_avast5_” folder.
thanks.
:o very curious in your att. if you have high level language software you can crush avast please limit yourself in using only :-X
meaning ??? ??? ??? ???
That is the data that avast! is scanning at that time.
That is where avast! unpacks the data it is scanning.
;D sorry i don’t mean anything im just a newbe here seeking for help to. 
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The file date says, they are created yesterday, and they are still present if I even stop the avast service etc.
edit: I can also delete them, i.e. they are not locked by avast process.
thanks.
When avast has completed its scan it should clear those files, I suspect you have other security software that is stopping that happen.
What other resident security software do you have installed ?
If there is another resident security application when avast creates these files another scanner can lock the files, blocking avast from clearing them.
Stop the self-defence module and you can manually delete them, remember to enable the self-defence after you are done.
Hello David and Scott,
I had (un-installed now) threatfire, but I doubt TF will block them, anyway as they are not coming back, so I guess you guys are right, and I managed to delete them without disabling avast SP.
So I think issue is closed.
thanks as always for your help.
You’re welcome.
David, when you say avast should “clear” those tmp files when done with them, do you mean delete them? On my system, I’ve got maybe a couple dozen of them, all zero-length.
avast housekeeping is deficient… files unp???.tmp aren’t cleaned at all…
Yes it should and it does so on my system.
I know that for a fact as I frequently use the avast5 folder when investigating reported malware on sites, etc. When that folder has been opened in preparation for that the only file there is the webshlock.txt file because I’m browsing and the web shield is running. When I open pages, etc unp*.tmp files are created and when I’m done investigating those are cleared.
Sorry Tech, but that certainly isn’t the case for me.
Lucky you… your avast did not crash a lot of times…
Well crashing is likely to leave something behind, but that has nothing to do with housekeeping as you mention if it crashes whilst scanning that won’t complete and won’t clean the temp folder.
small room for temp file to help repeatable sending and receiving update no place in your system? next time updating make longer time, for creating temp folder again ;D
I don’t want avast do housekeeping when it crashes. I want that it do after some time of it, don’t letting behind the dumps that are useless for 99.9% of the users. If they want the information, collect the dump (as MS does).
We aren’t talking about dumps here but the unpacked files in the avast5 folder as far as I’m aware the dump files you are talking about are in the folder and have a file type of .hdmp or something like that as I don’t have any of those either, but I can recall them in avast 4.8.