I already stated though that I uninstalled Avast completely, reinstalled with Custom option and did NOT include the updater!
It is NOT installed with Avast and according to the FAQs should not even be downloading since I don't user the premier version.
It's been 4hrs now and it's still downloading that stupid Flash plugin!
I don't know if it keeps restarting or what is going on, but the Web Shield keeps showing it's checking the Flash 11 plugin. I found out it's only 15mb and shouldn't take more than 90min on my connection, but it's been 4hrs and I can't stop anything
Also, like I said before, going through Add/Remove to change anything further attempts to start even more downloads
Updated to add: Please see the attached picture. As I said, I do NOT have the Software Updater installed, but it's still automatically downloading and installing the updates that it listed this morning before I removed and reinstalled Avast to exclude it.....