I have gotten several warnings from Avast that an App called Advanced Task Manager may be a privacy threat. The warning comes up as a notification on my Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 running Jelly Bean. Clicking on it tells me very little except that detail reguires purchase of the premium version. I’ve searched the internet and found only good comments about the app, cannot find a way to turn off the warning, cannot swipe it out of the message area, and the only way I can remove it as a notification seems to be touching it and choosing help multiple times. Maybe there’s a problem and maybe there isn’t. I have no way of knowing without buying the upgrade which would make Avast less of the nice product I’ve used on my PC for years and something closer to scareware bordering on ransomware. Can someone please help me understand what I’m missing here?
Hi,
I think we’ll move it to separate notification that can be cleared/deleted so you won’t have to tap it all the time.
Filip
Hi,
but it’s a different story with Cerberus, isn’t it? It’s not about Privacy Advisor, but about Virus Scanner.
Filip
I continually get alerts about Advanced Task Manager on my Galaxy S3 phone, even though I’ve uninstalled it.
I’ve raised tickets on this, but no response from avast.
I have the paid version of avast. When ATM was installed, clicking on the alert didn’t take me to a useful screen, just the general privacy page.
So don’t bother getting the paid version in the hope that you will get more info.
(I uninstalled Advanced Task Manager because it now runs a process in the background, that I didn’t feel appropriate. Not because of the warning from avast.)
I have same problem with same App on Nexus7. I don’t have the phone model. Tried running scan and going into Notification Settings for Avast Mobile app, but nothing - scan terminated ok. Am running Premium version of Avast Mobile but no indication of what the issue is, or how to delete/clear it.
Wonder if this question is going to be answered. I have similar warnings from provacy advisor on my experia Z with upgraded Avast Mobile security.
There is nowhere explained where to find the specific application although it was already removed fom my phone. Can’t find it in my backups either. Starting to lose some confidence in Avast.
So you get notification about application which already uninstalled?