AVG has been stealing 55 GBs of memory into a folder called DEFS, how do I get it back?

AVG Protection
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Something has been constantly swallowing up any available space on drive C (running windows 10).

I had zero left and was stalled, so I freed up 5 GB, which got mysteriously filled in hours. So I freed up 10 GB in C by moving files to drive D. But C filled up again within a day. And so on. I realized that I’d soon have no space left in either C or D, so I ran WinDirStat. Turns out, AVG is taking up a whopping 55 GB of drive C, specifically in a folder called DEFS (the tree is AVG → Browser → Application → DEFS).

This is a crisis - I can’t work because I’ve already run out of space 3 times just today. This DEFS beast is insatiable but I want to proceed with caution here. Does anyone have insight into why this would happen? Will it let me just delete the folder without the issue repeating? Can I even delete it? Do I have to uninstall AVG entirely, and will that fix it?

Any guidance on how to solve this would be enormously appreciated. Thank you!

I want to proceed with caution here. Does anyone have insight into why this would happen? Will it let me just delete the folder without doing it again? Can I even delete it? Do I have to uninstall AVG entirely, and will that fix it?

Any guidance on how to solve this would be enormously appreciated. Thank you!

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WILL someone at AVG PLEASE answer this? Does each of the dated DEFS files contain ALL of the malware signatures, since they all seem to be of similar size??? And AVG seems NEVER to delete them. You are killing your product by making it impossible to use without crippling the protected computer!!