I have Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 and the current version of avast antivirus, and of course I don't have other antivirus programs installed. Over the past couple days, Windows Update (which I have set to let me know when there are new downloads but not to auto-install) setting turned off, and after turning it back on, avast real-time protection later turned off. I have never seen any evidence of conflict between those two before. I ran the most thorough avast, Malwarebytes, and Windows Defender scans and found nothing.
Any idea if this is some new conflict or bug with avast? I don't know what to do next. Thanks for responding.