I installed Avast Free 2015 yesterday and today at some point i noticed my ram usage was too high but i didn't pay much attention. After a while i saw my cpu usage being at atround 20% while it should be idle, i checked the task manager and it was "Avast NG Front End" causing this.
Then i went to "My PC" and WOW! my 500GB hard disk only has 20GB of free space even though my files take up 300GB and there should be almost 200GB free. This number kept becoming less and less, i tried closing it from the task manager but it didn't work so i uninstalled the NG component of Avast from add/remove programs and it finally stopped at around 18GB and my cpu went back to normal.... i restarted my PC but of course my HDD still has only 16GB of free space......
I revealed all hidden & protected files, i went to the root ---> ctrl+A ---> properties and indeed it's only 300GB as it should be... but then what's going on?? are there any "invisible" files avast placed somewhere and used up all of my free space???
I'm running windows 8 and after using avast since windows xp i'm speechless...