I could be wrong here, but Avast had upgraded my Avast program last year from and older version I had at the time even though I've always had Avast Program Updates set to "manual" as I prefer to be the one to decide when I might be interested in upgrading to the next version as I like to check it out before hand. The explanations I got on this board was that perhaps Avast was no longer able to support my version at that time hence the "forced" upgrade of the Avast Program. That may be, but I still contend that Avast should notify the user if this is the situation instead of taking the prerogative upon themselves to push the update of the Avast program in opposition to the setting I had for updates.
It has occurred to me that perhaps this "emergency update" is what Avast used as the method to to push the upgrade of my program version in conflict with my update setting of "manual" only for Program Updates.
So based on my suspicions in this regard I have "disabled" the module in the "Task Scheduler". I'm at a bit of a quandary as to whether this is a good idea or not, but I certainly do not want Avast updating my Program version of Avast on my personal property without my permission. My quandary on this revolves around the concern I have if in fact Virus Definition updates might be compromised as a result of setting the emergency update module to "disable" in the "Task Scheduler", which is why I'd like to know more about what it's used for and what risk there may possibly be by disabling it. As I said before it would seem to me that Virus Definitions get regularly updated all the time so I can't see why the "emergency updater" would need to be used for this. I understand the idea of problems occurring with updates that would require the "emergency updater" to be used, but I would still think this would mos likely really only apply to Program Updates as opposed to Virus Definition updates and if this is the case then I don't have to be concerned.