Avast Folder Size

[Yaron10]

Everytime I update Avast (engine, not program), the folder size grows by several MB.
The current size is 220 MB.
Is there a way to clean up unnecessary files?

Thank you.

[CraigB]

Avast does it's own housekeeping from time to time which will bring the size of the program file down automatically, mines on 233mb at the moment.

[DavidR]

Avast does its own housekeeping a new VPS (virus definitions) update, although incremental creates a new (combined) DEFs sub-folder. So generally you will see the current and previous definitions sub-folder. These old sub-folders are periodically pruned by avast.

So over time it should be fairly stable, but would obviously grow a little as new virus definitions are added to the database.

[Yaron10]

Thank you. I appreciate your help.

[DavidR]

No problem, glad I could help.

Welcome to the forums.

[MikeBCda]

Both from my own system and the other replies, it sounds like your Avast files are just about dead-on typical ... mine total 219 MB.  Admittedly that's just under Program Files, there's more in Docs & Settings/Application Data, plus undoubtedly some drivers in the Windows system folders.