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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: REDACTED on November 24, 2014, 08:03:39 AM

Title: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on November 24, 2014, 08:03:39 AM
Yes After update my avast to latest one now daily when i start my pc i lost more then 300mb .. can,t get yet where is my space going . i am using win 7 pack 1 window update i set manual everything is closed not install any software etc etc which update auto from internet

can anyone tell me where is the problem are have bugs in the latest avast
i am on of the lovers of avast :)
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: Eddy on November 24, 2014, 08:54:43 AM
You didn't lost it, it is the new NG component that is using that space as has been explained many times already on this webboard.
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on November 24, 2014, 09:23:26 AM
can you give me link , my space coming down day by day what i do with this ?
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: Eddy on November 24, 2014, 09:27:44 AM
If you don't want to use NG, just remove it.
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on November 24, 2014, 09:56:15 AM
i am new can you tell me how i remove NG ?
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: Eddy on November 24, 2014, 10:29:09 AM
Control panel > software > avast > change > untick NG
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 13, 2014, 08:34:40 AM
thank you so much , my problem was solved with Disable NG but now Again i  lost space i check once again NG still uncheck but still lost space daily
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: Asyn on December 13, 2014, 08:37:28 AM
To rule out an infection: Attach your basic logs. (MBAM, FRST and aswMBR..!!)
Instructions: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 13, 2014, 09:03:28 AM
here is the log
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: Asyn on December 13, 2014, 09:08:44 AM
OK, now you've to wait a bit...
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: essexboy on December 13, 2014, 12:26:03 PM
Are you still loosing space

CAUTION :  This fix is only valid for this specific machine, using it on another may break your computer

Open notepad and copy/paste the text in the quotebox below into it:
 
Quote
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {0b25bc2a-1327-11e4-aea6-643150384c1a} - P:\LGAutoRun.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {1a17dc3f-4eaf-11e4-815e-643150384c1a} - P:\LGAutoRun.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {33e58ff9-ee22-11e3-b6c9-643150384c1a} - P:\autorun.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {35d66a2f-5686-11e4-ba18-643150384c1a} - C:\Windows\system32\RunDLL32.EXE Shell32.DLL,ShellExec_RunDLL P:\start.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {35d66ae8-5686-11e4-ba18-643150384c1a} - P:\MotoCastSetup.exe -a
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {441b482c-2e96-11e4-a396-643150384c1a} - P:\LGAutoRun.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {4c5a594c-6fc4-11e4-9d36-643150384c1a} - C:\Windows\system32\RunDLL32.EXE Shell32.DLL,ShellExec_RunDLL P:\start.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {566caf35-ee0c-11e3-81e2-643150384c1a} - P:\Startme.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {5c451e6e-eca4-11e3-8c1f-643150384c1a} - P:\LGAutoRun.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {5cd3deb3-754a-11e4-9e2e-643150384c1a} - P:\AutoRun.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {5de9afd3-2d21-11e4-bbc5-643150384c1a} - P:\LG_PC_Programs.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {6a40cd72-33f1-11e4-93a9-643150384c1a} - P:\AutoRun.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {6bcd0a25-7d29-11e4-9190-643150384c1a} - C:\Windows\system32\RunDLL32.EXE Shell32.DLL,ShellExec_RunDLL P:\start.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {6e9b6dfb-3020-11e4-844c-643150384c1a} - P:\setup.exe -a
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {8272bebb-fc28-11e3-8d46-643150384c1a} - P:\MotorolaDeviceManagerSetup.exe -a
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {9a3806c2-3ccb-11e4-b5d6-643150384c1a} - C:\Windows\system32\RunDLL32.EXE Shell32.DLL,ShellExec_RunDLL P:\start.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {9a5b357c-5e62-11e4-8bbb-643150384c1a} - P:\MotorolaDeviceManagerSetup.exe -a
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {9ab5d01c-285f-11e4-a88f-643150384c1a} - P:\MotoCastSetup.exe -a
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {a7e3ce98-1158-11e4-a75d-643150384c1a} - R:\HTC_Sync_Manager_PC.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {b0fc46cc-1e1f-11e4-80ba-643150384c1a} - P:\Setup.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {b0fc46d1-1e1f-11e4-80ba-643150384c1a} - P:\Setup.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {b0fc46d5-1e1f-11e4-80ba-643150384c1a} - P:\Setup.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {b3d80e56-7f69-11e4-92a1-643150384c1a} - C:\Windows\system32\RunDLL32.EXE Shell32.DLL,ShellExec_RunDLL P:\start.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {b41fccab-55bd-11e4-a788-643150384c1a} - P:\MotorolaDeviceManagerSetup.exe -a
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {b7a0d6e0-357e-11e4-940f-643150384c1a} - C:\Windows\system32\RunDLL32.EXE Shell32.DLL,ShellExec_RunDLL P:\start.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {c6693707-42e1-11e4-bf76-643150384c1a} - C:\Windows\system32\RunDLL32.EXE Shell32.DLL,ShellExec_RunDLL P:\start.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {cc725112-2b4f-11e4-8cd5-643150384c1a} - P:\Startme.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {db1e07f4-6d6b-11e4-9dd5-643150384c1a} - P:\Startme.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {dc4eae5e-eb80-11e3-817d-806e6f6e6963} - F:\Tenda.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {de5ab0e6-109e-11e4-8227-643150384c1a} - P:\LGAutoRun.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {de5ab0e7-109e-11e4-8227-643150384c1a} - P:\LGAutoRun.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {de5ab0eb-109e-11e4-8227-643150384c1a} - P:\LGAutoRun.exe
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {eb798358-80f7-11e4-ae3d-643150384c1a} - P:\AutoRun.exe {D2D77DC2-8299-11D1-8949-444553540000} 5.2066.1.A11B02 PID_0083
HKU\S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000\...\MountPoints2: {f707ed07-3972-11e4-9fc8-643150384c1a} - P:\MotorolaDeviceManagerSetup.exe -a 
ProxyServer: [S-1-5-21-3436120090-2146776578-3309824031-1000] => 127.0.0.1:9666
BHO: No Name -> {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} ->  No File
BHO: No Name -> {DBC80044-A445-435b-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} ->  No File
FF NetworkProxy: "autoconfig_url", "data:text/javascript,function%20FindProxyForURL(url%2C%20host)%20%7Bif%20(url.indexOf('play.google.com')%20!%3D%20-1%20%7C%7C%20(url.indexOf('youtube.com%2Fvideoplayback')%20!%3D%20-1%20%26%26%20url.indexOf('%26gcr%3Dus')%20!%3D%20-1%20%26%26%20url.indexOf('%26ptchn')%20!%3D%20-1)%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rdio.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fplay.spotify.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'https%3A%2F%2Fplay.spotify.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spotify.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spotify.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.last.fm*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fext.last.fm*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mtv.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.mtvnservices.com*')%20%7C%7C%20url.indexOf('vevo.com')%20!%3D%20-1%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fgrooveshark.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fretro.grooveshark.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fhtml5.grooveshark.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Flisten.grooveshark.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.grooveshark.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fpreview.grooveshark.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fpiki.fm*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'https%3A%2F%2Fpiki.fm*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funimation.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.funimation.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crunchyroll.com*')%20%7C%7C%20(url.indexOf('proxmate%3Dactive')%20!%3D%20-1%20%26%26%20url.indexOf('amazonaws.com')%20%3D%3D%20-1)%20%7C%7C%20(url.indexOf('proxmate%3Dus')%20!%3D%20-1)%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fsongza.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fnew.songza.com*')%20%7C%7C%20url.indexOf('discoverymedia.com')%20!%3D%20-1%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fdsc.discovery.com%2F*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'https%3A%2F%2Fwww.daisuki.net*')%20%7C%7C%20url.indexOf('southparkstudios.com')%20!%3D%20-1%20%7C%7C%20host%20%3D%3D%20's.hulu.com'%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'https%3A%2F%2Faccount.beatsmusic.com*')%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beatsmusic.com*')%20%7C%7C%20host%20%3D%3D%20'www.pandora.com'%20%7C%7C%20shExpMatch(url%2C%20'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iheart.com*'))%20%7B%20return%20'PROXY%20us01.sq.proxmate.me%3A8000%3B%20PROXY%20us08.sq.proxmate.me%3A8000%3B%20PROXY%20us03.sq.proxmate.me%3A8000%3B%20PROXY%20us06.sq.proxmate.me%3A8000%3B%20PROXY%20us07.sq.proxmate.me%3A8000%3B%20PROXY%20us05.sq.proxmate.me%3A8000%3B%20PROXY%20us04.sq.proxmate.me%3A8000%3B%20PROXY%20us09.sq.proxmate.me%3A8000%3B%20PROXY%20us10.sq.proxmate.me%3A8000%3B%20PROXY%20us11.sq.proxmate.me%3A8000%3B%20PROXY%20us02.sq.proxmate.me%3A8000'%3B%7D%20%20else%20%7B%20return%20'DIRECT'%3B%20%7D%7D"
FF Extension: No Name - wrc@avast.com [Not Found]
FF Extension: No Name - mozilla_cc@internetdownloadmanager.com [Not Found]
EmptyTemp:
CMD: bitsadmin /reset /allusers

 
Save this as fixlist.txt, in the same location as FRST.exe
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/73555776/FRSTfix.JPG)
Run FRST and press Fix
On completion a log will be generated please post that



THEN

Please download and install WinDirStat (http://sourceforge.net/projects/windirstat/files/windirstat/1.1.2%20installer%20re-release%20(more%20languages!)/windirstat1_1_2_setup.exe/download?use_mirror=superb-dca3).
It will look something like this

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/73555776/windirstat.JPG)
 
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 13, 2014, 12:37:44 PM
yes i lost more then 7 gb from tomorrow

this method will solved my problem ?
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: essexboy on December 13, 2014, 01:03:39 PM
It will help me see where the problem resides
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 13, 2014, 01:09:21 PM
here is screen shot and fix log
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: essexboy on December 13, 2014, 01:46:33 PM
OK could you press the + next to the <files> entry and take a screenshot of what it shows

Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 13, 2014, 02:16:12 PM
ok here is the screen shots
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: essexboy on December 13, 2014, 03:23:43 PM
Do you use hibernation of this computer ? 

If not then http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html

Next open the users and screen shot that

Avast NG is using 13 Gb (unless you have VMware installed)
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 13, 2014, 04:50:26 PM
Thank you for quick reply ok i will disable hibernation tomarrow when i start pc i check the space its 70gb free but now when i am going to power off the pc its show 65 gb only i wonder where is 5 gb ? Ng already disable
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 14, 2014, 06:57:14 AM
Thank you for quick reply ok i will disable hibernation tomarrow when i start pc i check the space its 70gb free but now when i am going to power off the pc its show 65 gb only i wonder where is 5 gb ? Ng already disable

here is user screen shot
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: essexboy on December 14, 2014, 12:25:24 PM
The vast majority of files are in your user account so it may be worth seeing what is in there and deleting the ones that are taking up the most space (if you do not need them)
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 14, 2014, 05:20:59 PM
Well i will remove that one becoz i have no need but the main problem is that i lost daily 300mb are 200mb are some days 500 mb space . Before i never face such problem . Where is going my space daily when i start my pc i lost  200 mb in stand by when just the pc booted .
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 14, 2014, 05:31:34 PM
Once more today i start to download a file file size is 1gb downloading start after download complete i move file to other drive D:  but when i come back to c: again 200mb more space lost .really i have no idea what is going on
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: essexboy on December 14, 2014, 05:41:17 PM
Use windirstat and compare the folder sizes to yesterday ..  Which folder has increased in size ?
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 14, 2014, 05:45:01 PM
@essexboy thank you so much for give me time i will check and post it tomarrow morning
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 15, 2014, 10:23:10 AM
i checked and note there is nothing change tomorrow and today have same size on WinDirStat status but still i lost 300 mb from today morning :) really wonder where is going my space :)
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: essexboy on December 15, 2014, 05:37:03 PM
All I can think of is temporary files, do you have your browsers set to empty them on close ?
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 15, 2014, 06:19:10 PM
Hi for that i am using ccleaner daily on night when i finish my work i do this all window updats i set manual not intsall anything new all is old software from last one month if i download something i move it to other drive no keep on c: today again i lost 300mb tomarrow my c: was 65gb but today its show 64.7gb
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: essexboy on December 15, 2014, 07:22:24 PM
Windows updates does have backup copies of files on the system, these can be removed by using disc clean-up in elevated mode you can also remove old restore points that way

Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 16, 2014, 07:38:24 AM
i have no restore point , its also disable . i update this ver online from old ver , can i remove and install a new copy of avast ?
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: essexboy on December 16, 2014, 04:12:08 PM
Yep... 

Without system restore I hope you have a backup image of your windows drive

Download Avast Uninstall Utility (http://www.avast.com/en-gb/uninstall-utility) to your Desktop.
Download the correct version of Avast 
Avast Free (http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_free_antivirus_setup.exe)
Avast Pro (http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_pro_antivirus_setup.exe)
Avast Internet Security (http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_internet_security_setup.exe)
Avast Premier (http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_premier_antivirus_setup.exe)
Disconnect from the net
Uninstall Avast via control panel

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Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 18, 2014, 08:33:25 AM
I had the exact same problem.  The other day it popped up that my Internet Security was over so had to switch to the 2015 free version.  Started with 90gigs and after 1 day doing a boot-scan i came on to find I had 16gig left.  So i went on to delete programs which ended up make the storage keep going down and down.  So i went on to delete AVAST 2015 Free and then bam it went back up to 90 gigabytes of memory.  Ive been using AVAST for a super duper long time years and years so I'd still like to keep using it but I can't seem to figure out how to fix the problem either.
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 18, 2014, 09:17:02 AM
i have no restore point , its also disable . i update this ver online from old ver , can i remove and install a new copy of avast ?

I found that the problem that was taking all the memory was the program RESCUE DISK that u can click on installing AVAST programs.  So I unclicked it when I reinstalled AVAST and the problem was fixed.  Hope that helps
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 18, 2014, 11:06:16 AM
I am having similar problems of rapidly losing precious SSD space after update to 2015. I will try uninstalling NG and rescue disk and see if I can get some of it back. Otherwise I will uninstall avast, use avast cleaner and reinstall with both unchecked.

I am using Pro. How do I get my license back after a clean install?
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: Asyn on December 18, 2014, 11:14:15 AM
I am using Pro. How do I get my license back after a clean install?
-> http://www.avast.com/resend-license-paid.php
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 18, 2014, 11:23:03 AM
I uninstalled NG and Rescue Disk, but only got a few hundred MB back. How do I get my several lost GB back? Uninstall entire avast, use avast cleaner and reinstall? Any other less painless way?
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 18, 2014, 11:23:49 AM
I am using Pro. How do I get my license back after a clean install?
-> http://www.avast.com/resend-license-paid.php
Thanks. I guess probably re-inserting the license file I received previously by e-mail would also work.
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: Asyn on December 18, 2014, 11:26:02 AM
You're welcome. And yes.
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 19, 2014, 08:50:02 AM
Any ideas anybody, I am still losing disk space. And the only software change (other than MS updates) has been Avast!
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: essexboy on December 19, 2014, 01:18:03 PM
Where is the space being taken ?  Use windirstat top determine this
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 20, 2014, 07:35:02 AM
Please look at this and see if you can help. I had about 13-14 GB free on my 50GB (shown as 46 GB) SSD before the 2015 Avast! 2015 update. It is now down to 6.7GB.
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: essexboy on December 20, 2014, 11:36:30 AM
I would look in program files and <files> to see what is in there taking up the space.  Use the + mark in windirstat to open
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 20, 2014, 01:37:11 PM
This is the problem -> https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=163039.0

New Avast is automaticly moving reserved space for system restore to 50% !!!

And you can't find these system restore files with windirstat or windows folder view, because they are invisible. Users only can see that something is everyday eating their free space but cannot find any new files that cause this because everything is hidden.

First delete your system restore files and move your max usage slider to something like 5%

(http://i59.tinypic.com/2gvtyxw.jpg)

But avast might move the slider back to 50% again and fill your SSD with trash and eventually destroy your SSD (for having too little space for SSD to breathe)

so, the solution: uninstall avast and use something else.
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 20, 2014, 01:51:54 PM
So is this the new strategy for Avast? Let's fill users' free space and they have no idea what happened, then those helpless users might buy pro version of Avast so they could use Grimefighter feature to try free more space. This is exactly how some serious malware/trojans/viruses works (for example. encrypting all files and make user to pay to unencrypt those). This is so unfkingbeliavable!   >:(
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 22, 2014, 09:08:23 AM
Thanks dazzler, my system restore reserved space is 50%!!! It is using more than 9 GB of my precious SSD!!! Absolutely unacceptable by avast. I am repeating my post in the referenced thread in the hope that avast! listens. I am using pro version anyway but refuse to use Grimefighter and all their other useless add-ons. Which guy at avast thought of this nonsense? : This is terrible  >:(. Over the years I have noticed that avast anti-virus which used to be a light and great AV has become more and more bloated and intrusive than Norton/Symantec.

What if I disable system restore on my OS partition and enable it on my normal data disk partition? Will avast! use that or re-enable this stupid setting!?

I do expect a reply avast! and a solution quickly. I do not want this to stress out and lose my SSD prematurely. I will be forced to switch.
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: Asyn on December 22, 2014, 09:20:18 AM
Just disable NG, if you don't want/need it.
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 22, 2014, 09:23:34 AM
I have already disabled / uninstalled NG through add/remove programs and rebooted, but I was unable to recover any disk space. System restore was taking up 9GB of my small OS SSD. NG.

I have now set the system restore disk space at 5% which gave me a message that some system restore points will be deleted, I let it delete them and recovered 6-7 GB already. Let me see after a reboot whether avast! without NG will again set the system restore disk space reservation to 50% or leave it at 5%.
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 22, 2014, 09:49:47 AM
So far all seems ok after uninstalling NG and setting system restore reserved space to 5%. I got back my lost SSD space and hopefully now will reduce the stress on the SSD which was filling up fast.
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: Asyn on December 22, 2014, 09:50:22 AM
OK, sounds good.
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 23, 2014, 08:53:35 AM
my problem was solved after install a new copy of window :)

my window was too old and no problem from long time but when i update avast start problem here

now i install new window and no problem yet , and i hope no problem will be next
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: darth_shaker on December 28, 2014, 04:42:58 AM
Thanks for the answers on this topic I regained the fee space lost. Reducing the reserved space worked by the moment. Can someone confirm NG will reset the system restore space to 50%?

Also, Is the NG component actually useful for a standard user? Seems like a very advanced tool for me to use it.
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: Asyn on December 28, 2014, 05:58:22 AM
1. Can someone confirm NG will reset the system restore space to 50%?
2. Also, Is the NG component actually useful for a standard user? Seems like a very advanced tool for me to use it.
1. Confirmed.
2. See: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=154857.msg1125734#msg1125734
Title: Re: i lost daily 300mb after update my avast to latest one
Post by: REDACTED on December 28, 2014, 05:25:15 PM
Quote
1. Can someone confirm NG will reset the system restore space to 50%?
2. Also, Is the NG component actually useful for a standard user? Seems like a very advanced tool for me to use it.

Do you think it might be determined by the size of your hard drive?

I use NG and run win 8.1 on a 500g hard drive.

My restore space was at 50% but I reset to 12% when this topic started and it has remained there.