I own a multi-year, multi-PC license of Avast Premiere.
Over the past few months, I've been receiving the following pop-up:
"We've found unsecure passwords on your PC"
As I have my passwords AES-256 encrypted in a commercial password manager, I'd like to find out where these "unsecure passwords" are, so I can move them into the manager, and secure delete them.
Avast Passwords will probably never be my password manager of choice, although I can see where it would be great for other people.
So:
1) Is there a way to locate the "unsecure passwords" on my computer without paying for Avast Passwords? (Does Avast Passwords even show me where these passwords are located so I can choose what to do with them?) I personally think that there should be a password scanner included in the Avast Premiere package, so we can manage this serious security threat in our own way. I don't know if this is a false positive, or if there's a password or 100 sitting in a backup, unencrypted flat-file somewhere buried 10 layers deep in a removable hard drive. If someone uses the proposed free scanner, then maybe the scanner could show you where the passwords are, and then try to up-sell you on the manager?
2) I thought we'd gotten to the point where the marketing pop-ups were disabled? I had the "Show popup offers for other Avast products" disabled (and I remember I did this because we had a nice thread before where I was directed to do so), but it's now re-checked itself. Is that a bug or a feature?
3) Is the pop-up saying "We've found..." actually finding passwords, or is it just a marketing pop-up that is assuming -everyone- has unsecure passwords on their system, and hasn't done any actual scanning? What triggers this? Is there a log of what it found somewhere?
Thanks!