@ gregory.strydom079
What you don't say is the avast version that you did have installed ?
I have my three systems (XP, Win7 & Win10) set to manual program update and they haven't automatically updated the program. I have done a manual program update on the XP and Win10 systems, the Win7 system is still on avast 17.4.2294. This is still a relatively recent program and now doubt this has played a part in why it hasn't had a forced program update. But if I had a very old avast version, one which is no longer supported then my guess that could well result in a forced program update.