@ schmidthouse
Whilst I'm not involved in this beta testing session and you obviously need to test everything.
For me I simply don't run the (NOT so) Smart Scan as I feel it is more a vehicle to sell the other paid options. I say NOT so Smart as what it flags is down right dumb, for instance I'm vulnerable to ransomware, indicating folders that are Windows default locations (which are empty) I don't use defaults.
And also my IP address is visible, who cares, I don't. What annoys me more is the appearance that it is looking over my shoulder. I thought Avast would have learnt something from the data selling bloody nose, anonymised or otherwise. Avast is in the privileged position of being installed on my system/s it shouldn't be using that to snoop on what I'm doing to try and sell me something, which I won't do because of the way it is offered.