Thank all of you for replying.
Could be that running emupdate is impacting normal VPS announcements, but that is yet to be determined by avast! team members. I'm sure they're looking into this issue. We, as users, really can't do anything nor should we do anything, about this issue beyond reporting it here, or else begin a support ticket with avast! and wait for a reply from there.
2014 or 9.0.2008 versions are a major upgrade from the previous build version, with a compete re-write of coding in some areas from what I can see. Changes certainly go far beyond what a normal user can see from the gui alone. It's helpful to keep this in mind as we go along here.
Some bugs are to be expected, unfortunately.