Years of free use with the occasional self promoting Pop up!
The suddenly an annoying continual "Threat detected"! Whenever I tried to connect to the Internet.
I read various convoluted threads on the Internet. Eventually I ignored them all and Uninstalled Avast.
Then downloaded the latest version from the internet.

I guess time will tell but for the moment "All Seems Good?"

Yes Avast has become a pain since Google got their hands on it! However it is still one of the better freeware versions.
Grizzly