How to disable the Privacy Advisor?

[tramp20]

Hi,
a scan of the Privacy Advisor slows my phone almost to a deep sleep.
How can I stop this scanning?

[Lisandro]

You can disable scanning in the AMS settings...

[tramp20]

You can disable scanning in the AMS settings...

Really sure?
I searched several times, there is no possibiltiy to deactivate this in the free version.

I can only deactivate virus scan and PUP detection.

[Lisandro]

You can disable scanning in the AMS settings...

Really sure?
I searched several times, there is no possibiltiy to deactivate this in the free version.

I can only deactivate virus scan and PUP detection.

Can't you disable advisory notifications?

[tramp20]

You can disable scanning in the AMS settings...

Really sure?
I searched several times, there is no possibiltiy to deactivate this in the free version.

I can only deactivate virus scan and PUP detection.

Can't you disable advisory notifications?

Of course I can disable the notification, but I want to disable the automatic scanning. My smartphone is almost blocked for (exact) 7 Minutes during scanning of 150 apps.

[MrRAlan]

I also want to be able to disable the random app scanning of privacy advisor.

[Klinker]

I notice I get random Privacy Advisor scans also....kind of annoying. I have also seen it start Privacy Advisor scans when I open the GUI...seems like that shouldn't happen unless the user also hits the Privacy Advisor tab within the GUI, right? I can hit cancel and it stops, but still bothersome. Is there a threshold of time or after certain apps get updated that triggers these scans on top of the regular Avast scanning of apps when activated/updated? If you let Privacy Scan complete (as if it were building a full list of apps) will it stop starting these random scans?

It's all very random or I would send a log into Avast.

Thanks.

[MrRAlan]

The random scans do not stop if you let privacy advisor complete.

[Filip Havlicek]

Hi,

that depends on how you define "random". It should scan:

1) Installed/updated app, at the same time the virus scan scans the app.
2) When you enter the Privacy Advisor from the dashboard and the information might be outdated, a full scan of all apps is performed. The information might be outdated usually once or twice a day.

Filip

[tramp20]

1) Installed/updated app, at the same time the virus scan scans the app.

We do not want this to occur automatically, a checkbox (as in virus scan) would be the solution.

Not every user has a quad score cpu smartphone with > 2 GHz :-(

[Filip Havlicek]

I have dual core 1GHz and it's fine But I understand what you mean. It might be changed sometimes in the future, but no promises.

Filip

[MrRAlan]

It also scans randonly when you just open the GUI.  This is something we don't want also.  Thanks.

[Filip Havlicek]

When you open the dashboard? You see the scanning progress from Privacy Advisor and you can't access the dashboard?

Filip

[MrRAlan]

Not every time.  But after a period of time has passed and you open the dashboard, the Privacy Advisor scan starts on its own.  You can still access the Dashboard but the scan is running.

[Filip Havlicek]

OK, and how do you enter the app? Via the usual icon on your desktop/your app list, via notification or...?

Filip