Getting way too many critical alerts and pressure to upgrade

[user5501]

Avast Premium Security and Antivirus needs to do their advertised job that I subscribed to and not pester their clients with endless, meaningless “critical” warnings that only amount to scare tactics and harassment. For this reason I will not resubscribe. Don’t reward a company for lack of integrity.

[DavidR]

First, I’m an Avast user and not an Avast Team member.

We can’t see what you can see, so a description of what you are doing at the time and or a screenshot might help is to help you.

Are you running a Smart Scan would be a reasonable guess (by default it runs periodically, unless you change the settings). This aside from a virus scan also runs a scan for vulnerabilities, which you won’t be surprised Avast has a solution (paid of course).

With a resident (on-access) scanner the need for on-demand scans (including the so called Smart Scan) is much depreciated. For the most part dormant/inert files are being scanned, the other active files are going to be scanned by the resident shields when they are activated.

[MrDJ]

Im getting them all the time David, every couple of days. and no smart scan run here lately. and all adds turned off.

latest one is tracking cookies an hour ago.

yesterday was my IP address which is run through Nord vpn so not my ip address. then 4 days ago i had 10 critical driver updates but all my drivers are upto date.

its sadly getting worse but a simple red x and they are gone, until next time.

all critical allerts are hard sell scare tactics bullcrap

[DavidR]

Well I’m on Avast Free and I’m simply not seeing them - My system specs below my post.

Generally I don’t restart my laptop unless I specifically have to. I just close the lid and it goes into sleep mode.

[user5501]

[user5501]

and this is typical daily….

[user5501]

No, I’m not running a scan. These notices are self generated, unsolicited “critical warnings”

[DavidR]

This last image is indicating a Smart Scan has been run.

I Suggest you check the Smart Scan settings, they may be being run in the background, periodically and or on a system restart.

These are my settings and I don’t see this kind of activity.
Though I’m still on Avast 25.5 as in my setting below my posts, I believe a Smart Scan is run in the background on a system restart, which I rarely do.

[user5501]

Thanks for the input. Unfortunately it does not appear that I have that option. None of the tabs/windows under Protection indicate that option.

[New_Style_xd]

Follow these steps.

MENU → SETTINGS → PROTECTION —> SMART SCANNING —> FREQUENCY —> RUN MANUALLY

[user5501]

Thanks very much!!! Hopefully that will take care of it