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ranjitram

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Pendrive of 8 GB showing 10 GB scanned data
« on: July 04, 2013, 04:21:21 AM »
My 8 GB HP pendrive has 4.87 GB data.  However, when I scanned the drive with avast (free version), it showed the amount of data tested as 10.5 GB.  No file was found to be infected.  I have installed portable application manager with some programs and also contain some compressed files.  Is is normal to show the said result or is the pendrive infected? Please advise.
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Re: Pendrive of 8 GB showing 10 GB scanned data
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2013, 06:50:39 AM »
Welcome to the forum. :)
You probably have some compressed files on the USB drive.
When avast! scans those files, they are uncompressed (become larger) which is why
there is a discrepancy between the stored files and the scanned size.
Hope that explains it to you. :)
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Re: Pendrive of 8 GB showing 10 GB scanned data
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2013, 03:08:15 AM »
Thanks a lot, Sir.
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Re: Pendrive of 8 GB showing 10 GB scanned data
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2013, 03:21:55 AM »
Quote from: ranjitram on July 05, 2013, 03:08:15 AM
Thanks a lot, Sir.
Your welcome. (My Dad was Sir) I'm just Bob. :)
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