Yes this settings is broken now. We plan to completely scrap this setting and rather make it possible to create a custom scan based on Smart Scan. But the main SmartScan will have the items fixed.
OK, it makes sense to have the settings all in one place. Though in this case, scans in the Smart Scan of components that supposedly haven't even been installed, yet have the functionality to run a scan !!!
Components that aren't listed and installed in the Avast Installation shouldn't be able to run in the Smart Scan. If a component hasn't been installed (for reasons of the user) it shouldn't mysteriously be able to run in the Smart Scan (not very smart).
Totally agree with David and Bob on this.
Why is Smart Scan now broken? It was sort of fine before. Not perfect though, as I have encountered the Sensitive Data scan once before, after an Avast version update. That time, after I rejecting the "upgrade" cross selling offer, it went away. Not this time though.
Surely Smart scan can be fixed to pull up just installed components, not all components, available to Free version. Martin's dev proposal seems a retrograde step to me. I find the Smart Scan green button is handy on UI to manually run essential scan elements once in a while, but is not a good feature as it stands.