Excessive AVG Temporary Files ?

[We Shall Over Comb]

I notice when I remove files with CCleaner 2.35 that most of the clutter files are labeled AVG. I run it about every day and this is typical. In the past, I don't remember that much being removed. Computer is mostly email with Outlook Express 6 and limited website search & browsing. No gaming or other data intensive applications. Does this seem like a lot of space to be accummulating every day?

I am using Win2000 on this computer and 99%+ Firefox. Thanks.


Details of files just removed, 24 hours since last cleaning.....

Total files removed 245MB

Large files removed

Utilities - AVG Antivirus 9.0 - 210MB
Internet Explorer - Temporary internet files -- 32MB
System - temporary files - 9MB

Small files removed

Mozilla - less than 200KB total all files
Windows Explorer - 29KB

[VanguardLH]

You are STILL off-topic. AVG generating lots of temp files has nothing
to do with OE. It doesn't have anything to do with Windows XP, the
other newsgroup in which you *multi*-posted your same article 20 minutes
earlier. In the XP newsgroup, you said you were using Win2000, so both
AVG and Win2000 were off-topic to the XP newsgroup.

The behavior is probably has to do with you using an ancient version of
AVG but then you're stuck with it because you are using some older
version of Windows (2000 or XP, not sure which).

The problem is with AVG. Ask in their forums about the behavior of the
6-year old version of AVG. If you search there, you will find some
posts reporting about the large number of temp files created by AVG.
That's how AVG worked back then.

Are you opening attachments (which is the same as when viewing them in
the preview pane) in OE? Are you opening the attachments so they are
viewed in some other application? In either case, and because OE is not
an image viewer app, it has to call whatever is the handler (program)
assigned to the filetype for the attachment. If you extracted the
attachment (saved to a file) and viewed that file, perhaps you wouldn't
have the problem with AVG. Double-clicking or opening attachments in
OE, or any e-mail client, requires decoding that attachment and saving
it somewhere. That somewhere is a local temp folder. Opening the
attachment has the e-mail client create the temp file in the temp folder
so the handler can open that file to present its content to you. While
that handler has the file opened, OE nor any other process can delete
those opened files. Those files are inuse. If you close OE than it has
no way to delete the temp file because it is still visible in the
separate handler. You need to exit the external handler (viewer) BEFORE
exiting OE so OE can then delete temp file cache.

I suspect you have AVG configured to use an e-mail scanner - which is
superfluous protection since it won't detect anything more than the
on-access (real-time) scanner. So AVG may be creating a temp file of
its own for the attachment you opened in OE (instead of extracting or
saving the attachment to its own file).

Disable AVG's e-mail scan option, do your file cleanup, and see if using
OE thereafter still generates those temp AVG files. In OE, don't view
or open attachments from within OE (which extracts the attachment to
OE's temp folder). Save the attachments to their own files and then
open those files. See if that eliminates AVG creating lots of its own
temp files. Do NOT use the preview pane in OE to show a slide show of
attachments. That obviously has OE opening them (saving them to a file
in OE's temp folder) to view them while inside OE. Previewing the
attachments is still opening them inside of OE. If saving an attachment
to its own file rather than opening them in OE gets rid of AVG creating
lots of temp files then your choice is: remember to manually save an
attachment and view THAT file, or preview in OE (using whatever is the
assigned external handler) and suffer with AVG creating lots of temp
files - and continue using CCleaner to cleanup up sloppy AVG.