@ skinnypops
Thanks, I suspected that might be the case, I have my info popup set at 2 sec, for the most part that is what you want. Though I'm surprised that avast would have considered Hardened Mode popups as informative, rather than something more severe.
Now that the Add an exclusion option works, it isn't to much of an issue, if you are quick, hover the mouse over the window/popup it doesn't close.