Yesterday I made a repair of avast, using the apposite function to scroll down and repair a problem. After that, when I reboot my computer a second icon of avast appeared on my desktop, and in control panel avast now is 266 MB, while before the repair it was 144 MB…why this increase in the weight of the program and why the second icon on the desktop? can you help me?
Avast size in your system changes according to database updates. Once in a while, Avast “cleans” itself and reduces the size of its database.
But it really seems this is not your case. It sounds like “duplicated Avast versions”.
Have you rebooted after the procedure?
The only solution I can think of is actually uninstalling, reboot into Windows Safe Mode, use the removal utility (http://www.avast.com/uninstall-utility) and then install Avast anew.
If you don’t want to do that, and Avast seems to be working, then simply delete one of the desktop icons (but, if you reboot and you are not 100% sure that Avast and Windows are working correctly, I would recommend a “clean” uninstall and reinstall)
Avast and windows are working perfectly since yesterday,I have already deleted the second icon, my dubt was about the increase in weight of the program. After the repair I have rebooted my computer, I’m sure about this…
I can’t say why the second icon appeared, or if the icon properties are the same, e.g. same path and file name ?
If so then it would be possible to delete one of them.
As for the increase in size that is not unusual if you have a look in the C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast\defs\ folder you will see multiple virus definitions update folders, see image1, click to expand.
In my image I have highlighted one (today’s VPS update version), look at the bottom of the image and you will see it is 60.4MB, each of these folders will be almost the same size. Avast periodically does its housekeeping and removes old folders, so normally you would see the latest and previous versions and possibly one previous to that (prior to housekeeping).
However, I wouldn’t put much store in the windows control panel add remove programs figures, I have seen these be wildly inaccurate (image2) in the same way as the Last used on date is wildly inaccurate.
Definitely sounds like avast has doubled up on your system, what version of avast were you using prior to the upgrade? as iv had this happen on one of my old systems that was running an older version of avast and when i ran the repair it actually installed the latest version without uninstalling the copy that was already installed. The only way i can see to repair this is doing what ady4um suggested in running the uninstall tool from safe mode and then reboot back to normal mode and start with a fresh install.
Note that after running the uninstall tool it might pay to check in your programs to make sure that both versions are gone before you reinstall.
I was to slow in posting, if you only have one version of avast in your programs and it is working properly i would leave it for now and see how it goes.
Ok, all it’s clear now, yes the properties and the name of the second icon are the same…so I have deleted it and avast works normally. It was a duplicate with the same function of the original avast icon.
Hi, I have looked into my programs and I have only one avast version, that is the latest. Avast is always updated, I have the latest version of virus definitions and the latest version of the program: 6.0.1289