Dell Inspiron 1501 - Win XP-SP3 - AIS 6.0.1289
All of a sudden, starting on the 16th of November, AIS comes up with these results after the daily scan.
Since Secunia was installed long before I started using AIS, I find this a bit strange.
Any thoughts on this would be very much appreciated.
Firstly, seriously consider giving up the whole “daily scan” thing…unless you really want to for peace of mind. But Avast! scans everything on-access already, part of the benefit of having an AV always running in the background is getting to do away with a daily scan routine.
As far as the results go…Avast! will always return this result on any pass-protected file. Because it knows not what the password is. Why is it returning this result now, but not before? 2 possible reasons come to mind…either an Avast! update led to scanning in an area that was not scanned before…or Secunia started pass-protecting files that were previously not.
Either way, the results are safe to ignore.
Heartfelt thanks for looking into this, Gargamel360.
As there wasn’t a program update for Secunia lately, I assume it might be due to an Avast update.
I’ve performed daily scans (by any AV) ever since I bought the laptop so I’m going to follow your recommendation about these and switch to a weekly scan instead. 
Thanks again!
Np, glad to help.