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[DavidR]

@Vapor post:20

I'm like you I don't use default folders, in fact, this is what makes me wondering about avast diligence and true knowledge.

I use Deepfreeze Ent. and Igloo to redirect some of the registry and folders to totally different location, some of them even outside of my system.

As you know if you delete theses folders they will rebuild themselves unless you delete the registry associated with them, so I don’t even have them I haven’t had them since windows 7 existence so what is avast pointing to, if that’s what they after.

I’m the same way when comes to real site, there are much more diligent ways to know whether you are on genuine web or not.

Avast should stop this ongoing silly sale pitch. I think they would gain more if they asked once or even twice rather then being so forceful and as I said, in free avast…OK but paying customers, give me a brake.

As far as diligence goes, if Avast were to dig deeper into your system to find the non-default folder locations (and I’m sure they probably could), users would be screaming about privacy, etc. etc.

I have never seen the point in deleting these folders or registry entries, given that they will always be empty.

[Vapor]

Yes I get that, but this makes me wonder, when my folders are none existent how on earth avast have determined that they are at risk and how they have applied and fix as it said “All Clear” and fixed I can only come to my own conclusion but, enough of beating dead horse.

Yes, deleting the empty default folders is totally unnecessary but, years ago after windows 7 just came out I made my mission to slim that OS as much as I could, then after all I made an image and ever since I have never reinstalled my OS, if anything I just reload that image and that is without theses folders.

If I was to reinstall windows from disk again I would not bother with deleting these folders its overkill

[mchain]

@Vapor post:22

Yes I get that, but this makes me wonder, when my folders are none existent how on earth avast have determined that they are at risk and how they have applied and fix as it said “All Clear” and fixed I can only come to my own conclusion but, enough of beating dead horse.

Yes, deleting the empty default folders is totally unnecessary but, years ago after windows 7 just came out I made my mission to slim that OS as much as I could, then after all I made an image and ever since I have never reinstalled my OS, if anything I just reload that image and that is without theses folders.

If I was to reinstall windows from disk again I would not bother with deleting these folders its overkill

Advertising is not at the same level of knowledge as IT (Avast Programmers) so they use a one-fits-all-script. Whether your system is different is irrelevant for their purposes.