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Re: Smart scan components differ from those selected
« Reply #30 on: August 27, 2018, 04:55:47 PM »
My best guess is, that's a leftover marketing gimmick (nobody cared to remove).

Not much of a marketing gimmick for those on a paid version of avast and it isn't there :)
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Re: Smart scan components differ from those selected
« Reply #31 on: August 27, 2018, 04:58:41 PM »
My best guess is, that's a leftover marketing gimmick (nobody cared to remove).
Not much of a marketing gimmick for those on a paid version of avast and it isn't there :)
Yep, I was talking about the free version.
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Re: Smart scan components differ from those selected
« Reply #32 on: August 27, 2018, 05:02:09 PM »
Just FYI, there's a separate menu in the paid version, so I don't really need it in smart scan.
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Re: Smart scan components differ from those selected
« Reply #33 on: August 28, 2018, 09:31:33 AM »
I have Avast Free on winXP SP3 and Win10 1803 machines. Both have Sensitive Data scans fixed in Smart Scan.
I agree it is prob an Avast Marketing Scam, but I was previously able to get around it by switching off all components then back on. Not this time. So the Marketing Scam is now more sticky.
The really annoying thing is it runs every time you run a Smart Scan so takes a lot of time if you have a big disk. I will now forego Smart Scan altogether. Pity as it is a useful bundle of components I like to run on the odd occasion.
I just cannot understand why it is in the Free version (unwanted) but not the paid version (wanted) if I understand @Asyn correctly. Maybe they have a settting crossed over between these versions.
Ho hum just another Avast "feature" I will have to live with, as I dont see Avast devs will be motivated to fix it.
("feature" was the word we used instead of "bug" when I was a dev. Don't think things have changed much over the years).
For what it is worth, I did do an Avast Repair on both my machines, but to no effect.
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Re: Smart scan components differ from those selected
« Reply #34 on: August 28, 2018, 10:04:35 AM »
Hi Ed, info from Martin below. Let's see...

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Re: Smart scan components differ from those selected
« Reply #35 on: August 28, 2018, 11:35:10 AM »
@Asyn. Yes I am also aware of MartinZ reply #13 back in May 2018.

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Re: Smart scan components differ from those selected
« Reply #36 on: August 28, 2018, 11:38:12 AM »
@Asyn. Yes I am also aware of MartinZ reply #13 back in May 2018.
No, that's a new one (from here https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=221320.0).
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Re: Smart scan components differ from those selected
« Reply #37 on: August 30, 2018, 06:38:57 PM »
The scan for "Sensitive Data" has added itself back into the Smart Scan on my Avast v18.6.2349 Free.
This happened to me before back in June (Reply #19 on: June 29, 2018 - in this thread)

On that occassion I was able to "remove" this rogue setting by removing and then reinstating the default scan options.
Others also appeared to have some success with that technique.

However this time nothing works - even disabling all available Smart Scan options still leaves the "Sensitive Data" item active.

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Re: Smart scan components differ from those selected
« Reply #38 on: August 31, 2018, 01:51:42 PM »
Reported to Avast.
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Re: Smart scan components differ from those selected
« Reply #39 on: September 02, 2018, 02:27:57 PM »
Avast has only collected a definitions update (2-Sep-2018) - but the "Sensitive Data" item in Smart Scan has gone again.  Not sure how or why the config has been fixed - unless it was a problem caused by a fault in the definitions data - but the problem is now solved (again).

For anyone still seeing the "Sensitive Data" item showing in Smart Scan:
Try resetting the Smart Scan options by going to Menu->Settings->General->Smart Scan.
Enter the Customise option and tick the "All Files" tick box then OK out
Switch off both Smart Scan sliders (Browser Add-ons and Virus Scan) then OK out and close the program
Then go back and reverse those steps to put everything back as it was (deselect "All Files" and turn on both sliders)
With any luck you should no longer see "Sensitive Data" showing when you start a Smart Scan or see warnings about "Unprotected Sensitive Documents".

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Re: Smart scan components differ from those selected
« Reply #40 on: September 02, 2018, 03:39:13 PM »
The last VPS update most likely fixed the problem.
If you still have a problem, make sure your VPS is up to date.
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Re: Smart scan components differ from those selected
« Reply #41 on: September 10, 2018, 06:06:00 PM »

For anyone still seeing the "Sensitive Data" item showing in Smart Scan:
Try resetting the Smart Scan options by going to Menu->Settings->General->Smart Scan.
Enter the Customise option and tick the "All Files" tick box then OK out
Switch off both Smart Scan sliders (Browser Add-ons and Virus Scan) then OK out and close the program
Then go back and reverse those steps to put everything back as it was (deselect "All Files" and turn on both sliders)
With any luck you should no longer see "Sensitive Data" showing when you start a Smart Scan or see warnings about "Unprotected Sensitive Documents".


Didn't work for me. Still get unwanted "Sensitive Data" scan despite changing smart scan settings.

Correction.
Worked only after I did a full reboot.
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Re: Smart scan components differ from those selected
« Reply #42 on: September 10, 2018, 08:42:37 PM »
it worked for me

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Re: Smart scan components differ from those selected
« Reply #43 on: September 10, 2018, 09:58:30 PM »

For anyone still seeing the "Sensitive Data" item showing in Smart Scan:
Try resetting the Smart Scan options by going to Menu->Settings->General->Smart Scan.
Enter the Customise option and tick the "All Files" tick box then OK out
Switch off both Smart Scan sliders (Browser Add-ons and Virus Scan) then OK out and close the program
Then go back and reverse those steps to put everything back as it was (deselect "All Files" and turn on both sliders)
With any luck you should no longer see "Sensitive Data" showing when you start a Smart Scan or see warnings about "Unprotected Sensitive Documents".


Didn't work for me. Still get unwanted "Sensitive Data" scan despite changing smart scan settings.

Correction.
Worked only after I did a full reboot.
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Any time you make major changes, you need to reboot in order for those changes to take place. :)

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Re: Smart scan components differ from those selected
« Reply #44 on: October 06, 2018, 07:23:36 PM »
Just tried a Smart Scan today. I don't do this often.
The unwanted "Sensitive Sata" scan is back embedded as default item and cannot be deselected.
Tried toggling the Smart Scan component settings, reboot. No change.
Tried repair Avast, toggling Smart Scan settings, reboot. No change.
The above workrounds used to work, as described in thread above, but not this time.
Crazy as Sensitive Data scan is of no use in Free Version.
So no way of dumping "Sensitive Data" scan in Smart Scan in Avast Free, unless someone knows a new way to overcome this annoying bug.
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