Well, I'm a bit surprised that no one is aware of any application that can monitor and block auto installs. Hmmm, so nothing like WINPATROL "lite" then?
It's hard to believe there's nothing that can do that, but I appreciate those who actually considered my question, that's not say I didn't enjoy the off topic interchange however, as always it's all fun.
If at anytime I run across anything I'll post back, but for now I'll move on and hope Avast settings are abided by as any user would reasonably expect to be the case.