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I'm running ESET nod32 antivirus on Windows 7 64 bit machine. I can see huge files being created and being locked by the ESET nod32 antivirus .Why is this?

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These are temp files created by Eset when an application is downloading something, Eset uses these to scan the files before actually writing them where they belong.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=239810

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i tried deleting them, but are recreated again..how do i stop that because I'm losing about 7 gb of disk space – iceman Nov 29 '10 at 3:36
I would contact Eset support. eset.com/support/contact ..or the Eset forums..wilderssecurity.com/… – Moab Nov 29 '10 at 21:35

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