WHY the hell am I forced to rescan every few weeks every WiFi network my device connects to or have it flagged as ‘potentially dangerous’??? Even my very secure home network!!!
Scan, deemed safe, a few weeks pass, suddenly the persistent notification flags the network as ‘potentially dangerous’, rescan, safe again, rinse and repeat.
This is damn annoying!!! 
Hi Ch3vr0n, we are not sure about the cause of this, did it appear after some update? At the moment we do not have any other solution than have it scanned every few weeks, but we know of the issue now and will try to fix it in some of the future updates. Thanks for understanding.
I can’t say exactly when it first started happening but it’s been at least 2-3 months. Seems to happen every 31 days because the small note after scanning never goes beyond ‘last scanned 30d ago’ which I’ll hit in 2 weeks from now.
Yet another thing where v4 is superior to v5.
Hi Ch3vr0n,
do you have AMS version 5? If yes, we don’t consider results older than month “fresh” enough, because something might’ve changed with the network - for example the router password, encryption type, it’s visibility from the outside etc. That’s why after a month you have to scan again. We might consider some more permanent solution for home networks, but that’s more of a question for our UX/UI team.
Ondra
Yeah I got 5. All I can say is it’s damn annoying. I can understand that warning for unprotected ones but for protected ones it makes no sense. If the encryption type changed then the stored network by itself no longer works at all and a new connection needs to be made.
Especially makes no sense for my home network. Both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, guess something could be added to set a network as ‘trusted network’ or something. This would no longer show that dangerous warning then for those networks but still allow it to be shown for others.
Hi, thanks for the suggestion, we have started thinking of such feature, hope to be able to make it work in the future.
EDIT - I’ve just got an e-mail from our Product Manager that they are working on it, planning to incorporate some kind of “trusted Wi-Fi” feature.
I had the same question in the german forum
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=181935.msg1296382#msg1296382
and this thread here gives me the answer!
Hope there will come a “solution“ soon…
Problem still exists in 5.1.0-9506 and it’s starting really piss me off. Instead on improving v4 with v5 it got totally ruined.
Don’t make such a fuzz out of it.
It is only once a month, not once a minute.
I’ll make it mammoth size if I want to. Once a month is 1 time to many, especially with the new persistent notification and no I’m not going to disable that and give Android a chance to terminate avast entirely.
And it’s still happening
This is annoying me greatly too. I liked Avast better when I could pay for more functionality, rather than have a dumbed-down free version.
This scanning my home network over and over is annoying. And no app should ever, ever be annoying. Not when there is competition.
I have the same issue but for what it’s worth from the security standpoint - an occasional network scan wouldn’t do any harm, I suppose. The problem here is that I have to permit the scan. I don’t understand why wouldn’t the AMP scan the connected networks automatically.
Why, Avast? Why do you make us do these dull operations?
Sidenote: I have to mention, that the CAPTCHA in this forum is borderline unreadable, as I tried to submit this post several times without success.
That’s not all, when I start the scan and let it run in the background when the scan is complete the notification states ‘we’ve found something’. I go back to the app, the finishing screen loads and it states ‘all safe’. So it didn’t find anything at all. Why claim is found something when it didn’t?
Not really the same issue, but still annoying…
A few days ago Avast (AMS) started to indicating that my home wifi network might be dangerous. Pointed to lack of router PW or PW “easy to guess”.
I don’t know about you, but to me a 40+ character PW is not THAT easy to guess… Anyway, to keep it short, turned out I had an expired trial version of the Avast “Secure VPN, Privacy Shield” app. Uninstalling this made AMS happy and my Netw was again considered safe!
Totally different issue I’d say. I’d recommend a separate topic. Now on topic, this is still happening. There’s been numerous updates so far? When is this going to get fixed.
Hi, solution has been added to the build 5.2.1 (at the moment rollout 10%). We hope to be able to get it to 100% users next week.
Sorry to bust your bubble but it isn’t. Currently using 5.2.3-12297-7178af9
Notifications: “Potential Wi-Fi problems” enabled (you will be warned when the wifi network you are connected with has never been scanned before). Well guess what, my current HOME and other networks that HAVE been connected to before and scanned STILL get flagged every 30 days. I think i worked for a version or 2 but not anymore
avast scans the wifi network every 4 weeks.
So yes, you will keep the message every time.
The solution is to fix the problem.
yeah and that problem is AVAST flagging SECURE networks as insecure! My home network is protected by WPA2-PSK with 128bit encryption key. After “scanning” yet again, my network is deemed safe as usual. The problem is AVAST flagging the network as potentially INSECURE every 30d, demanding a rescan to ultimately find nothing and deem it safe again and going back to the standard “all is well” notification.
It’s AVAST that needs fixing, not my networks, cause if i disable that scanning setting the message instantly goes to “all is ok”. Enable that setting again and the network is deemed potentially unsafe again. That’s what this whole topic is about, and has been from the start. AVAST needs fixing, not my networks.