Author Topic: HUGE /Library/Application Support/Avast/config/chest-data: 75GB !  (Read 2097 times)

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My Avast has a HUGE /Library/Application Support/Avast/config/chest-data

WHy is that? Is that something that can be cleaned up?

vademacumpro2:Avast mathias$ pwd
/Library/Application Support/Avast
vademacumpro2:Avast mathias$ du -s *
0   api.sock
1000   com.avast.helper.app
1064   com.avast.registration.app
23664   components
du: config/CA: Permission denied
du: config/private: Permission denied
156792832   config
8   display-version.tag
248   hub
40   launch
0   scan.sock
0   service.sock
0   submitStorage
434584   update-data
8   variant.tag
8   version.tag
du: vps/submits: Permission denied
441352   vps
vademacumpro2:Avast mathias$ sudo du -s *
Password:
0   api.sock
1000   com.avast.helper.app
1064   com.avast.registration.app
23664   components
156793120   config
8   display-version.tag
248   hub
40   launch
0   scan.sock
0   service.sock
0   submitStorage
434584   update-data
8   variant.tag
8   version.tag
441352   vps
vademacumpro2:Avast mathias$ cd config
vademacumpro2:config mathias$ sudo du -s *
272   CA
16   certs
156791744   chest-data
8   com.avast.crashreport.log
8   com.avast.fileshield.conf
8   com.avast.ga.conf
8   com.avast.prefpane.conf
712   com.avast.proxy.cer
8   com.avast.proxy.conf
8   com.avast.proxy.excl
8   com.avast.proxy.whls
8   com.avast.registration.conf
8   license.dat
16   private
160   service-data

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Re: HUGE /Library/Application Support/Avast/config/chest-data: 75GB !
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2015, 01:41:28 PM »
Ah. seems it kept scanning my vmware vmdks and of course found the cirus signatures of the guest os's own virus scanner install...