The smart scan result keeps using visual cue to prompt me to use cleanup feature and VPN, which I don’t need. How to dismiss the message from its main page? Or is it a predatory feature that can never be turned off?
→ https://support.avast.com/article/96/ (Add/Remove components)
Customise the Smart Scan AvastUI > Settings > General > Smart Scan - expand and only select what you want it to do.
Either that and or remove the components you don’t want to run.