Running IP traces on these connections I get the following:
204.2.199.56 Akamai
96.16.99.43 Akamai
72.14.204.148 Google
64.233.169.148 Google
205.128.73.126 Level 3 Communications
209.84.20.126 GTE Intelligent Network Services
65.212.121.144 The Weather Channel
63.111.74.121 The Weather Channel
Why in the world is Avast! connecting to these places? The Weather Channel? I know Akamai is a company that facilitates delivery of web content including advertising and we all know that Google collects information for advertisers. Are we submitting information to advertisers without knowing it and is this how AlWill makes enough money to give away the Free Antivirus product? I expected to see the IP's trace back to Alwil or Avast! but not a single one did.