/home/avg created after upgraded to Gutsy

[gup502]

On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 09:48 -0400, Scott Abbey wrote:
> gup502 wrote:
> > After upgrading to Gutsy, I have noticed a user created for
> > me, /home/avg
> > Password was set for its access.  Would anyone know what that is for?
> 
> Are you using AVG Anti-Virus? If I remember correctly, AVG creates a new 
> user named avg when you install it.
> 
> -- 
> Scott Abbey <scott at wangfu.org>
> 
> 

Thanks Scott.  You are right about AVG Anti-virus.  I did have a trial
version.  I deleted it and the /home/avg is still in the user group.  I
guess there is no harm in deleting it.


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