Hi,
me too... unfortunately...
First, i noticed, that the previous configuration did not get respected. One of my configured automatic scans vanished during the upgrade.
So i reconfigured that one, only to find, it did no get picked up at the expected time. (Manual scan did work though). But since i cannot even be awake every time, the scan should start, i decided to go back to a recent backup (lost about 1 week).
Also, the updated version was interfering with some of my programs/games in an unsolicited way. Its the same thing everywhere: companies not only aquire (even priviledged) data from their customers, but also taking over our hardware (Avast has admin-priviledges and makes sure, it stays that way!) But the people responsible for software changes usually do not imagine the unexpected ways, in which people are using their PC's, thus leading to problems with the free "one-size-fits-all" approach.
I went back to the 2016 version and checked the "manual updates" setting for now. But longer term, i am going to need an alternative, as this is not the first unpleasant surprise from this software for me!