Remove sensitive documents from smartscan?

@ DougCuk
Personally I feel the Smart Scan is pretty damn dumb, it is counter intuitive. If the so called marketing gurus think this is going to have people buy additional Avast products, they need to go back to school. I would see people just stopping using the so called smart scan altogether, or worse still stop using avast completely.

I rarely use the Smart Scan outside of testing (and forum questions) and the main area of concern would be the network/WiFi scan if that doesn’t show any issues, then why would I run this every time a smart scan runs.

For as long as the smart scan has been in existence, users have had very little control over what is run, so I don’t bloody run it.

  • With a resident (on-access) scanner the need for on-demand scans 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.

If this is correct (personally I believe so) there is little else worth running the smart scan for (WiFi exception mentioned) as these additional scans (that we have no control over) are for paid products, ads in other words.

The problem we say about the “advertisements” does not only concern the free version, but unfortunately also the paid ones.
I tried several times to install the Premier version by unchecking the modules that do not interest me. Well, the Intelligent Scan is also performed for the non-installed modules and among them precisely Sensitive Data. Ultimately you pay but then you are not free to decide what to install and this I find at least original!

As I said:

Personally I feel the Smart Scan is pretty damn dumb, it is counter intuitive. If the so called marketing gurus think this is going to have people buy additional Avast products, they need to go back to school. I would see people just stopping using the so called smart scan altogether, or worse still stop using avast completely.

This I feel goes double for those with paid versions of avast, you have to uncheck options not to see promotions for other avast programs, etc. These such options in a paid version of avast in my opinion should be opt_in and not opt_out by default.