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13-Mar-2008, 05:36 PM #1
AVG Question
I was a die hard Norton user for many years. I switched to AVG about a year ago and I've never had any problems. I do have a question though?
AVG updates daily (free version) and sometimes twice daily. Surely all these updates must be creating a huge file somewhere?
I realize Norton did that as well but ..... I guess I'm getting paranoid? LOL
Any thoughts on this? Thanks Dave
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13-Mar-2008, 06:14 PM #2
Hi all Avg Updates are there to stop your system from crashing Down.
Well worth the amount of files used.
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13-Mar-2008, 06:25 PM #3
I think these updates are rewriting (updating) existing files and not adding or creating obsolete files or junk that needs to worried about.
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14-Mar-2008, 07:19 AM #4
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I think these updates are rewriting (updating) existing files and not adding or creating obsolete files or junk that needs to worried about.
Well that's reassuring. Lets hope so. Thanks
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14-Mar-2008, 10:35 AM #5
I have another AVG question. I just uninstalled an older free version and installed the newest version. After that, I find some ADMINI~1, 2, 3 files in the Documents and Settings folder which weren't there before. Is it safe to delete them? Are they important?
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