I'm the OP and you all seem to be missing my point.
Let's try this again.
Prior to November/December 2015, a normal VPS update through the Avast program was less than 2 MB or so. I didn't update daily so I would imagine the daily update would be less than 1 mb, I don't know. I actually think it was around 550 KB, give or take a little. The longer I went without updating, the larger the update file size would be when I finally did update. So if I didn't update for a whole month, the update would still be less than 25 mb.
So missing one month of updates would result in needing to download a vps file of around maybe 20 -25 mb. But in November/December 2015, something changed where the update is much larger at over 100 mb (instead of the 10 - 20 mb that it should've been). That's never happened in my 5+ years of using Avast. NEVER!
I'm guessing most of you have no idea what I'm talking about because you probably use automatic updates and have high speed internet, so you probably have no idea what size the daily updates actually are. Downloading them through the Avast software doesn't impact your internet speed like it does for me, so I'm highly aware of the update file sizes. I know this because I'm stuck on dialup (no other option) and have to set the updates on manual because of that.
Isn't there someone here who knows what I'm talking about? I just want to know why the updates are so huge now? What changed?