I'd forgotten all about this little gem.
The shopping browser never bothered me. I just removed it. Avast keeping tabs on URLs seemed like common sense. I didn't mind Avast taking data anonymously. What bothered me were the huge unencrypted logs in Avast 9. No point having clear browser history or delete OS logs options if Avast was going to copy data insecurely on my laptop. Fortunately Avast has moved on. Water under the bridge I guess.
