AVG scanning files that aren't on my HD

Hi all. I recently had to reformat my PC, due to windows XP bootmgr fail. So i went ahead and upgraded to vista ultimate since I already had it.

I deleted the partition, and reformatted, and did a clean install.

Just today i instaled AVG internet security (anti-virus/spyware, firewall, etc)

Well after install it of course asked me to do a full system scan. Since I didn't have virus protection for a few days i want ahead and did it.

Now this is the weird part.

After that scan had started a while, i noticed it was scanning files in "C:\Documents and Settings\<my name>\App data\Local\Aplication Data\Aplication Data\** more and more app. data's\ xxx folder.

xxx folder could be anything, but the most common are temp and content IE 5.

It's searched nearly 60,000 files so far. I just reformated, i have Warcraft, and a few other basic apps on my PC, nothing like 60K files. And Vista doesn't even have a \documents and settings folder.


So what gives? do you think that it's searching my old XP files? Did the format not go through?

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Yeah, in that appdata folder is a shortcut to appdata folder... so it recursively scan and scan without ending. Maybe its not made for Vista? Nod32 does not have this problem.

There is, in c:\users\<username>
Maybe you have to enable "show hidden files and folder"
The old "Document and Settings" is now "Users"