Is the version of avast home previous to the most recent version update available for download anywhere?
You can probably find the old version at filehippo.com but that version of avast will not be a disk usage utility either.
You are simply misunderstanding what the scanning report is telling you.
What do you mean, I’m misunderstanding the report?
Please explain because if I am ignorant of something here I would appreciate understanding this.
How can it be scanning 39 gigs of files when only 28 gigs are being used, including the xp restore system?
I contacted Dell support about the problem and was informed whatever the computer states as usage, the restore system would only use 7-9 gigs at most.
But they felt the total usage included that as I don’t have but 19 gigs of my own files on the HDD.
So what could be creating the additional gigs?
Also, thank you for the lead on the possible location of a previous version but filehippo didn’t have it.
If anyone else knows how I can find a previous version (to the most recent updated one) download I’d appreciate it.
Click on the current version of avast! on the filehippo main page. The resulting page has a list of downloadable previous versions (column on the right-hand side).
edit: Or use this link to the page with previous versions:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_avast_antivirus/
Don’t worry about the figures that avast gives for total data scanned, it bears no resemblance to what you see in windows explorer.
The scanning process extracts data from files to a temporary folder, once extracted the data is scanned. This uncompressed data is much created than that given in explorer, once the scan is complete there should be no uncompressed data in the temp files so explorer will see no difference to the physical size on the HDD.
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As Alan mentioned stepping back one or more versions won’t make a blind bit of difference as the scan will still report the total data scanned which is likely to be greated than the physical size on disk.
David,
I think nrv may well have hit on a valid issue.
See my post here:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=23873.msg196589#msg196589
I must say I don’t see any “issue” here.
If scanning of archives is enabled, avast! extracts content of various files and scans it - and it counts as additional files both in count, and in size.
The “packed files” don’t have to be just ZIP or RAR archives, but e.g. also OLE files (such as .DOC, .XLS, .PPT, …) - avast! also extracts and scans some content here. So, I don’t believe there’s any problem here - it’s exactly how it’s meant.
Hmmm … one simple word document reports as 10 files and its size count is doubled on a standard scan.
Yeah I can see how easy that is for the average user to understand.
Well, I don’t know what to do about it - disable the OLE unpacker alltogether, thus fail to detect executables embedded in OLE documents?