My Avast Free is up to date. It still fails the Smart Scan. I already did the reinstall, no change.
Also, it still pops up the Avast window half a day later after using Smart Scan. It did so yesterday, grabbing focus from a game. This really should not happen, and the supposed recent fix clearly does not work.
So this is exactly what happens:
I run a Smart Scan.
It fails. (It might complete but it says it failed, so..)
I click 'resolve all'.
It then says nothing was found.
I click top left twice to go back to the main Avast screen.
I close the Avast window.
I go on with the rest of my day.
Then, many hours later, suddenly Avast pops up and shows me the 'No viruses found'-window from the Smart Scan. The window I would expect right after a succesful scan. But I haven't re-ran a scan. There is no indication Avast actually ran another scan (CPU + HDD activity + disk noises and such). Just the results window that pops up. Half a day after the scan was performed.
My Smart Scan is custom, to where it does the same scan, as far as I can tell, als a Full system scan. The same scan areas are selected, in the same order, with the same settings. If I run the actual Full system scan from the top menu, no errors occur, no viruses are found, and no window pops up hours later. So something is amiss in Smart Scan.