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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Allfor5 on April 12, 2011, 09:19:11 PM

Title: Help! How do i delete the webshield logs in GUI?
Post by: Allfor5 on April 12, 2011, 09:19:11 PM: Hello i have the paid pro avast antivirus and i deleted the webshield.txt file in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Alwil Software\Avast5\report\WebShield.txt but when i open up the avast GUI and click on real time shields-web shield- shield log, the data is still there.

How can i delete it from the GUI

Thank You
Title: Re: Help! How do i delete the webshield logs in GUI?
Post by: danny96 on April 12, 2011, 09:21:03 PM: Why you want to delete It? This informs you what viruses were blocked and what action was picked. Anyway I think that It's automatically deleted after a few days.
Title: Re: Help! How do i delete the webshield logs in GUI?
Post by: DavidR on April 12, 2011, 09:33:33 PM: You can restrict the size of report files, avastUI, Settings, Maintenance, Auto cleanup and the Maximum size of each log file, I have mine set to 64KB so that will drop off old entries. You could set it lower as 4KB for a txt file is still large if you are browsing it.

There are some files that don't abide by this limit, generally the setup.log and ones that are more benefit for debug/developer use.
Title: Re: Help! How do i delete the webshield logs in GUI?
Post by: scythe944 on April 12, 2011, 09:37:50 PM: Quote from: danny96 on April 12, 2011, 09:21:03 PM
Why you want to delete It? This informs you what viruses were blocked and what action was picked. Anyway I think that It's automatically deleted after a few days.

Duh... it was probably a pr0n site and he didn't want anyone to see what he was looking at.
Title: Re: Help! How do i delete the webshield logs in GUI?
Post by: Nesivos on April 12, 2011, 09:44:15 PM: Quote from: DavidR on April 12, 2011, 09:33:33 PM
You can restrict the size of report files, avastUI, Settings, Maintenance, Auto cleanup and the Maximum size of each log file, I have mine set to 64KB so that will drop off old entries. You could set it lower as 4KB for a txt file is still large if you are browsing it.

There are some files that don't abide by this limit, generally the setup.log and ones that are more benefit for debug/developer use.

Since the creator of this thread may not know how to limit/ change the size of the logs and may want to I have posted the following as an aid in doing so.

To limit the size of the logs

Right click on the Avast orange GUI.--------- Click on "Open avast! user interface"----------Click on "Settings"--------Click on "Maintenance"----Go to LOGS and change the size and/or "Enable debug logging" if you wish.
Title: Re: Help! How do i delete the webshield logs in GUI?
Post by: Allfor5 on April 12, 2011, 10:02:20 PM: I have set the limit to 4kb and i made the "Delete scan logs/logs (i made both) to 1day"
Title: Re: Help! How do i delete the webshield logs in GUI?
Post by: Zyndstoff (aka Steven Gail) on April 12, 2011, 10:06:39 PM: Still the question remains: why would anybody want to do this?
Title: Re: Help! How do i delete the webshield logs in GUI?
Post by: Coolmario88 on April 12, 2011, 10:16:50 PM: Quote from: Zyndstoff on April 12, 2011, 10:06:39 PM
Still the question remains: why would anybody want to do this?

I Don't know ;D I did want to know how at one time. But as time goes by I changed my mind and I don't want to know :P