Comes to mind: "That's not a feature, it's a bug".
Of course Avast themselves would say it was changed on purpose, and that it's a feature.
If it WAS changed on purpose, it seems kind of odd that the "Show notification box after automatic update" checkbox should still be there, don't you think?
Seems to me to be similar to the "feature" where the UI pops open after a scan, even though the checkbox is not set to instruct the product to do that.
Is the product development getting somewhat out of control?
-Noel