I'm also having some very strange issues with both updating in general and the streaming updates but mostly my problem is that I have the updates set to download automatically and obviously, streaming updates is on as shown in Midnights above but the program will not download the updates by itself. I have to manually patch it myself... even though the settings are set to automatic.
Not sure what's going on here, I've done everything possible to try and get the program to update itself, repairing avast (done this 4 times, but this only makes it worse as the avast emergency updater is completely removed from the task scheduler), reinstalling the program (done this about 6 times) and resetting my network settings and modem. All of these have been unsuccessful... the strange thing is, the program tries to update itself on startup of Windows 7, as I see the instup.exe process running but when it comes to the 240 minute duration when its supposed to update itself, it NEVER happens. I even left it on for a whole night before and it never updated even once.
Edit: I forgot to mention this problem started shortly after installing the newest version of Avast! (.2021), started a couple days after the installation but actually started with not being able to connect to the avast update servers AT ALL, infact... I couldn't connect to anything avast related, not even to download a program as it was downloading at like 10kb/s and my connection was NOT the issue as I had this checked by my ISP provider.