What is Avastbackend.txt

Found Avastbackend.txt in C:\ProgramData|Avasr Software. Size is 3KB and it contains two lines of what looks like Chinese. What is it?

The Avast backend classifiers use a number of techniques…

https://blog.avast.com/2012/12/03/new-toy-research-lab/

That doesn’t explain what Avastbackend.txt is and why it’s in what appears to be Chinese or some other such oriental language.

Reported to Avast. We’ll need to wait for them to answer.

It’s part of Software Updater

Hello hedgie,

this file contains SoftwareUpdater statistics, it’s in binary format (that’s why it looks like Chinese) and used for debugging purposes.