You mentioned "Emergency Updater" (AvastEmUpdate) thing before, that is exactly doing what you say "bad"; i.e. changing its behavior without changing major version number (internal versions of each file may be changed).
And, in most cases, what has been changed is not disclosed.
I think most of them are bugfixes, but I don't really know as there is little information about what is changed.
I know that occasionally... AvastEmUpdate can change certain things on the system, as I've seen it run before and setup things... but to this degree is a bit weird...
It is almost impossible to instantly detect whether there is any malware on the computer or not, that is why Self defense is always activated just in case there is some.
Well I've ran 3-4 different virus/malware scanners... Malwarebytes... Avast... Virustotal's online scanner and the Windows Malicious Software removal tool, all full-scans and it never found anything... so isn't that conclusive to say I don't have any virus?
Most NG drivers are already there (kept installed when once installed), so you don't see any "Aggressive" activities (installing driver everytime) as there is no need to do that.
NG is (was) part of the DeepScreen technology and when DS is triggered, NG is also activated (without installing drivers, because they are already there).
So, it is no doubt you did not see any driver-installing activities before.
So why is it doing it now then? I don't think I've ever had NG run before when I had previous versions of the program... and I always had the Deepscreen option ticked. Because it's supposedly bad to untick it.
I find it suspicious because it installs newly randomly generated services on every manual or automatic update... I see the logs every time Avast! updates the definitions and it always refers to 2 new services being loaded into the system... which are then shortly after removed... I don't know why it sees the need to do this
EVERY TIME. :/
The log says "Delayed installation", because you refused to install them. I think it is just a wording problem.
I dunno... it creates this same log every time Avast! tries to update as well. I have Avast! set to run the instup.exe every 120 minutes. (As I always have) and I checked the logs from every 2 hours ago and each one has the same wording and the mention of previously refused installations not made. Can't say I've seen this activity in previous versions of Avast! via the logs either.
There is no hostility in this thread.
Well you were rather rude. I may not know anything about Avast! very much, but I certainly am not stupid when it comes to PC's and such... but I do tend to have problems with stress levels... I have some problems, yes... And when things I don't expect happen I usually can't handle it very well...
As we said several times, stop worrying.
I do have a lot of knowledge/experience with computers (both hardware and software)
I don't know RejZor and NON personally, but I have no doubt at all that they have too.
Only start worrying if one of us tell you to do so.
If you see one of us worrying, it is time for a serious panic 
I appreciate that, I'm sure you have extensive knowledge with Avast! and programming and such other things but the difference to how Avast! was performing a week ago and now... there is a lot of differences that I can''t help but notice and worry about... I'm pretty OCD about how my computer runs. And Yes... I'm also sure that Rejzor and NON have very good experience too... NON has been particularly helpful in calming me down a little...
Although a version number of avast hasn't changed, it doesn't mean everything has stayed the same.
Sometimes (rare, but it happens), avast rolls out a (very) small update/change while they keep the version number the same.
You mean via AvastEmUpdate? I have seen this run many times before and am fairly aware that it can change settings for Avast! at any time, without your knowledge of it. But I'm not sure if this is the case in this situation. I've freshly reinstalled Avast! 4 times now in the past couple of days and whenever I do... it just does the same things as it does now. So I'm not sure if it may be a problem with the initial installation of Avast! because of some corruption or such thing so... meh.
NG isn't activated on every update.
It is always running if you have the option for it enabled.
If you have the option disabled, there are still (at least) parts of it present in case it need to start running.
Well it is for me... currently. Every time I do a manual check for updates via the AvastUI... the logs always state that 2 randomly generated services coming from the file "ngiodriver_64" were installed into the system, but they shortly disappear. instup.exe creates 2 processes when it checks for updates too so it's blatantly related to it...
2 processes of instup.exe
2 services created by ngiodriver_64
It always does this when it actually updates too but not when doing a automatic check (with no update available)... which is weird.
What is the setting for it to be enabled? Deepscreen? I've always had that enabled, on every version and never saw anything like this.
Anyways, thanks for the replies.
