Sorry I was a bit unclear about this.
By megaspam I mean 20+ dialog boxes popping up in my taskbar whenever I have a torrent on for download.
This morning I woke up and had a whole lot of these timeout dialogue boxes in my taskbar. I didn't think much of it, and just clicked them all away. Then after a few minutes (might have been an hour even) a whole load of them appeared again. This was like 20. This happened a couple more times until I closed my bittorrent program.
Now this is something new, because I've had the exact same torrent, and the exact same client going for some time now, and it just recently appeared after a program update.
I am using 4.6 Home edition. I haven't changed any settings what so ever, besides merging the two icons in the tray when I first installed it.
I'm not expert on this, I can only imagine - maybe torrents try to connect to a lot of peers. Some of these eventually times out, or just takes a whole lot of time. Does Avast monitor these connections and wait for x amount of time before popping up a dialogue box?
Either way, this is something new. I haven't changed a thing except clicking on update avast. It's extremely annoying when you get 3 pages of connection timeouts on your taskbar and it has to go, one way or another.