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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: farkpoint on October 24, 2018, 05:47:39 PM

Title: Location of test history on disk C: /
Post by: farkpoint on October 24, 2018, 05:47:39 PM

Hi, I would like to know where AVAST stores the history of the test, or how can I delete it?

Title: Re: Location of test history on disk C: /
Post by: Pondus on October 24, 2018, 06:26:00 PM

Scroll down to Review a scan history > https://support.avast.com/en-ww/article/Antivirus-PC-virus-scan

Title: Re: Location of test history on disk C: /
Post by: farkpoint on October 24, 2018, 07:37:26 PM

I know where the test results history is in the AVAST application but I do not know how to delete the result from the program or from the disk so that it does not have to read the history you understand?

Title: Re: Location of test history on disk C: /
Post by: DavidR on October 24, 2018, 08:46:35 PM

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "the test results history" is the on-demand antivirus scan history ?

If so when creating a scan or using an existing one, you can customise the scan, so it doesn't create a report.

In the Scan Settings > Report File and uncheck the Generate report file.  That said if the report file isn't created I believe there would be no data to compile the Scan History. 

You could test this be deleting the report files from C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast\report, the report file has the default name of ScanName.txt, see attached images.

Title: Re: Location of test history on disk C: /
Post by: farkpoint on October 25, 2018, 12:55:26 PM

I do not have a report set for any test, but how can I see the past tests in the history of the test? How to delete them? And two pictures are files I have there and can not be deleted.

Title: Re: Location of test history on disk C: /
Post by: igor on October 25, 2018, 01:30:05 PM

Have you tried the Maintenance section in Settings / General?

Title: Re: Location of test history on disk C: /
Post by: farkpoint on October 25, 2018, 02:10:41 PM

Yes that's what I needed :-)
Thanks!