I also tried it and no problems now… but still, since it crashed at least once, I think Alwil should check it anyway. Something was there that was crashing the web shield, and it should be checked if they want their program to work flawlesly. There is no chance that in this case system configuration matters, so it’s something inside web shield.
I just sent that MiniDMP file to you Lukas.
Btw, what are all those zero-size files inside the log folder (see last screenshot) ? Do I have to remove them manually, or they are going to be removed automatically after some period of time ? Thanks !
I think they will need to be manually deleted, I have just checked mine and there are some unp files going back to October last year, I notice I have one .mdmp file from 5 days ago (haven’t a clue what that was about).
So the question really is are the unp******* files Ok to delete without restriction?
I’ve got an e-mail from Lukas saying that there is some big holiday going on in Czech Republic these days, but as soon as they come back and start to work again, he’ll take a look at my miniDMP file I sent him. Also, I believe he will give us answers regarding these zero-sized files, leftovers in log subfolder. I belive that there is no reason to doubt that all those miniDMP files with 0 as file size, can be safely removed manually without any consequences. After all, there is absolutely nothing inside those files… but, as always it’s better to get confirmation from Alwil first.
Sasha, as you know (but some user could not), safe in my post means: all dumps (zero or not) are safe to be deleted, your system will work after that. You will only lose the possibility of sending the dump for Alwil to analysis, improve/correct avast. The user won’t be harmed deleting these files 8)
There are some unp******* files without extension, and their size is not 0. What are those files. MiniDMP files are with MDMP extension, or all those files are the same ? But then again, why they don’t have extension at all ?
I don’t know… the names of the files (at least the unpXXXX ones) are generated randomly, so it may be hard to find what to delete.
But - the files shouldn’t normally be there (I mean, crashing is not supposed to be a “normal” behavior), so I’m not sure if it’s worth to implement any special processing for them.
Yes Igor, you’re right… crashing is not “normal” behavior as you mentioned, but I believe that after the actual crash, file that’s left inside log folder is not zero sized… it actually contains some miniDMP data, right ? So, it’s useful to have it in case like this when we have to send miniDMP files to you guys…
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I don't know... the names of the files (at least the unpXXXX ones) are generated randomly, so it may be hard to find what to delete.
Isn’t there any possibility to include all zero sized files to be deleted on let’s say system shut off or something similar ?