Hi, in an effort make more space on my pc AND to delete programs that I do
not use any more or care to use, I decided to switch one of my malware
programs for another one. I actually wanted to try something different and
hopefully seemed like it is less size than AVG.
I installed avast and when I went to uninstall AVG, the size of Avast in the
add and remove programs was 114 MB !!! AVG was somehting like 27MG.
WHen I downloaded avast it was alot smaller in size than AVG so why the
difference now when removing it? I barely have had Avast for 14 hours.

This question pertains to alot of other programs that when you go to
download, it is one size. When you go to Add & RP, its a different size. Can
someone explain?
thx in advance

I ignore it. Avast shows 113Mb on my XP machine and 70 on my Vista
machine.
Read here:
Add/Remove
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/arp.htm
or more specifically, here:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/arpinfo.htm
and:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/ar...09/178342.aspx

....Alan
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Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.com/index.htm


On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:02:01 -0700, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics, "Azy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hi, in an effort make more space on my pc AND to delete programs that I do
>not use any more or care to use, I decided to switch one of my malware
>programs for another one. I actually wanted to try something different and
>hopefully seemed like it is less size than AVG.
>I installed avast and when I went to uninstall AVG, the size of Avast in the
>add and remove programs was 114 MB !!! AVG was somehting like 27MG.
>WHen I downloaded avast it was alot smaller in size than AVG so why the
>difference now when removing it? I barely have had Avast for 14 hours.
>
> This question pertains to alot of other programs that when you go to
>download, it is one size. When you go to Add & RP, its a different size. Can
>someone explain?
>thx in advance
>

Niether AVG or Avast are malaware apps, they are both AntiVirus apps, not
the same as malaware

"Azy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi, in an effort make more space on my pc AND to delete programs that I do
> not use any more or care to use, I decided to switch one of my malware
> programs for another one. I actually wanted to try something different and
> hopefully seemed like it is less size than AVG.
> I installed avast and when I went to uninstall AVG, the size of Avast in
> the add and remove programs was 114 MB !!! AVG was somehting like 27MG.
> WHen I downloaded avast it was alot smaller in size than AVG so why the
> difference now when removing it? I barely have had Avast for 14 hours.
>
> This question pertains to alot of other programs that when you go to
> download, it is one size. When you go to Add & RP, its a different size.
> Can someone explain?
> thx in advance
>

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:02:01 -0700 from Azy <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> I installed avast and when I went to uninstall AVG, the size of Avast in the
> add and remove programs was 114 MB !!! AVG was somehting like 27MG.

The sizes in Add or Remove Programs are meaningless. I don't know
where those numbers come from, but they are definitely not the amount
of disk that the program uses. I have seen major programs with a
size of just a few K (not M) in Add or Remove programs.


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Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:10:11 -0000 from DL <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>
> Niether AVG or Avast are malaware apps, they are both AntiVirus apps, not
> the same as malaware

I don't know what "malaware" might be, but viruses are certainly a
form of malware and therefore an anti-virus program is an anti-
malware program.

As has already been remarked in another thread, no one anti-malware
program does the whole job and does it well, so you need multiple
ones.

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Explicitly not
eg SpyBot, Adaware, Malawarebytes are all specifically malaware scanners
An Anti Virus application may have some elements of malaware scanning, but
that is not their main use
Installing multiple AV apps would cause problems & niether would probably
function correctly.
Multiple malaware scanning tools can be used, with generally no problems

"Stan Brown" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:10:11 -0000 from DL <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>>
>> Niether AVG or Avast are malaware apps, they are both AntiVirus apps, not
>> the same as malaware
>
> I don't know what "malaware" might be, but viruses are certainly a
> form of malware and therefore an anti-virus program is an anti-
> malware program.
>
> As has already been remarked in another thread, no one anti-malware
> program does the whole job and does it well, so you need multiple
> ones.
>
> --
> Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
> http://OakRoadSystems.com
> Shikata ga nai...

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:10:11 -0000, "DL" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

> Niether AVG or Avast are malaware apps, they are both AntiVirus apps, not
> the same as malaware


The word "malware" (it's not "malaware") is short for "malicious
software." A virus is clearly a form of malicious software, so an
anti-virus program is clearly an anti-malware program.


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On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 07:58:40 -0500, Stan Brown
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:02:01 -0700 from Azy <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> > I installed avast and when I went to uninstall AVG, the size of Avast in the
> > add and remove programs was 114 MB !!! AVG was somehting like 27MG.
>
> The sizes in Add or Remove Programs are meaningless. I don't know
> where those numbers come from, but they are definitely not the amount
> of disk that the program uses. I have seen major programs with a
> size of just a few K (not M) in Add or Remove programs.


And just to put the sizes into perspective, these days you can buy a
typical 160GB hard drive for around $40 US. At that price 114MB is
less than half a penny's worth of disk space. 114 million bytes may
sound like a big number, but it's a *tiny* amount of disk space.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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In news:(E-Mail Removed),
Ken Blake, MVP <(E-Mail Removed)> typed:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:10:11 -0000, "DL"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Niether AVG or Avast are malaware apps, they are both
>> AntiVirus apps, not the same as malaware
>
>
> The word "malware" (it's not "malaware") is short for
> "malicious software." A virus is clearly a form of
> malicious software, so an anti-virus program is clearly an
> anti-malware program.

It amounts to: a virus is malware, but malware is NOT necessarily a virus.
"Malware" is the higher category that is comprised of several others,
including AV-ware. Just to keep it balanced so they aren't seen as the exact
same thing. A Ford is a car, but a car is not necessarily a Ford; same
difference.

HTH,

Twayne`
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through personal experience does not become a
part of the moral tissue.

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:13:31 -0000 from DL <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>
> Explicitly not
> eg SpyBot, Adaware, Malawarebytes are all specifically malaware scanners

I don't think anyone will put a lot of faith in someone who thinks
the word is "malaware".


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http://OakRoadSystems.com
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