Each directory is comprised of hundreds of. Balasubramanian S Avast Thank you for the information. Do you still have the AVG program installed on your computer?
Could you please provide the screenshot of the window that has these AVG files so that we can assist you better? Alan Binch Doug, For your info, just in case that you are unaware, you can post the screenshot here in your topic. AVG Guru. Doug Rossire Here's the screen shot thanks Alan. It seems as if it has suddenly stopped replacing previous dat files and is saving all of them, whenever new ones are introduced. Here's a second screen shot showing the location and file sizes.
Balasubramanian S Avast Thank you for attaching the screenshot. This issue should have occured since you have installed the older version. We request you to completely remove using our AVG remover tool and install latest version. After the restart, AVG Remover will finish the uninstallation. Please feel free to contact us should you need any assistance. Doug Rossire Thanks! I'll do it now. Balasubramanian S Avast You are most welcome. Please do try it and if there is any issues do let us know.
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Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article methods. Related Articles. Method 1. Restart your PC. AVG recommends restarting before you try to install to ensure that there are no administrative tasks running in the background. Click the search icon. Type control panel.
A list of matching results will appear. Click Control Panel. Click Programs and Features. If you see a "Programs" button, click on that and then "Programs and Features" on the next page. Right-click AVG in the program list.
A menu will appear. Click Uninstall. This opens an uninstall wizard. Follow the on-screen instructions to remove AVG. Restart your computer to complete the removal. If you run into any problems removing AVG, see this method. If you still see the AVG search page in your web browser after uninstalling the software, see this wikiHow to learn how to set your default search engine.
Method 2. Open the Launchpad on your Mac. Modern antiviruses apply a complex of various protective mechanisms to help them combat a virus infestation of separate files or the entire operating system, and a set of preventive measures to detect possible virus attacks by analyzing how applications, network packages and specific processes behave.
Following the safety criteria set up by their developers and trying to exclude the slightest chance of virus infestation, antiviruses may perform forced removal of suspicious objects which do not necessarily include only potentially dangerous objects.
When recovering data lost after antivirus activities, the options offered by the protective application itself may be insufficient, and you may also need to use specialized software able to restore the lost user data in full. On the Internet , anyone can find a data recovery program to their taste, as there are lots of offers ranging from free apps to commercial solutions. However, with the list of useful features offered and the successful recovery rate in mind, clearly the solution worth your attention is Hetman Partition Recovery , the flagship product by Hetman Software.
This program can be used in a wide range of scenarios as it has a number of integrated tools that always recover user data after all kinds of issues. It can recover lost information regardless of how it was removed from a variety of storage devices internal or external hard disks, memory cards of any format, flash drives and more or various computing devices desktop computers, laptops of all sorts, digital media players etc.
An obvious advantage of Hetman Partition Recovery is its ability to restore information after system failures related to operating system errors or crashes caused by power surges, disk firmware or driver failures. It can also bring data back after hardware issues such as damage to the logical partition or the entire drive, loss of access when the drive is damaged, unreadable or physically damaged and software problems damaged or missing file allocation tables, removed partitions and accidental formatting.
A special feature of the program is recovering lost data after malware effects or virus infestation. Download and install the program to a partition other than the one from where you plan to search and recover files. Otherwise, the deleted files may get overwritten which makes it impossible to recover them successfully. The step-by-step wizard will help you select the optimal settings, complete the installation and get it ready to use.
When you start it, Hetman Partition Recovery will run an initial scan to detect all connected storage devices and their parameters. Select the disk or partition where you need to find and recover deleted files. Double-click on the required disk, and it immediately starts the File Recovery Wizard that will ask you to choose the type of analysis for restoring data from the selected device. You should choose between the two options, Fast scan and Full analysis.
The first option is good for recovering recently deleted files and is very quick. The second option lets the program find and recover all information available on the selected disk. Select Full analysis and click Next to start the process of searching and recovering data. Wait for the analysis to be finished. The actual time required for that will depend on several factors: the size of the storage device, its file system, the extent of damage to the data, functional characteristics of the computing device i.
The progress bar will show you the course of the scan in real-time mode and provide an estimated time required to accomplish it. When the analysis for the selected disk is over, Hetman Partition Recovery will display the results in the main window. You can examine contents for all files by viewing or listening to it in the Preview window, and choose what exactly you need to recover.
Having selected the necessary files and placed them onto the Recovery List by dragging and dropping, click on the Recovery button. It starts the File Recovery Wizard immediately and it offers you to choose a method to save the files. By default, you can choose from the four options to satisfy your recovery needs:. Save to hard disk — save recovered files to any storage device you prefer a hard disk, USB drive etc ;. Depending on the method you have chosen, you may need to specify a few additional settings, one of them being the path to save the files.
Backing up important data deserves a separate paragraph. The Windows operating system has a few integrated tools to back up the things you want to protect. The obligatory condition for using these is turning the backup option on in time. You can configure its settings and decide what elements should be archived regularly. In case of an emergency, if a file gets removed by an antivirus by mistake or damaged by some malware, you will be able to have the lost data back by restoring it from the archive you have created so thoughtfully.
However, the constantly growing amount of data we have to deal with, use or keep in storage devices, people often face the problem of low disk space. That is why they choose not to back up their data, or archive only a limited list of important system files. In that case, there is a high risk of not finding the required file if the original copy is missing. Also, there are always chances that malware can damage or infect the backup file — which makes the antivirus respond and remove it in the end.
There are ore advantages if you create backups and save them online with all kinds of remote cloud storage services for example, OneDrive. Once again, some users choose not to do it, being afraid lest their data should be leaked or fall into the hands of third parties.
For a complete overview of the possibilities offered by integrated backup tool of the Windows operating system, peculiarities of their configuration and application, watch this video tutorial: «Windows Back Up OneDrive, File History, System Image, Recovery Disk ». Wide usage of modern computing devices for storing, processing, transferring and sharing information increases the chances for it to be lost or damaged as a result of malware activities or virus attacks.
The ability of malicious applications to disguise themselves into healthy programs or make their activities look like permitted actions increase the risk of antiviruses deleting user data if it seems suspicious enough. That is why antiviruses tend to use integrated protected storage areas quarantines to keep harmful and suspicious object there and this way, exercise a better control of the situation.
Users can always view the contents of the quarantine and restore required objects when they are believed to be absolutely safe, and do it in a few easy steps. However, for a number of reasons certain elements can be removed immediately, and to have them back, users have to employ a specialized data recovery program, Hetman Partition Recovery.
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