So I just noticed that spontaneously my computer's time/date changed. Okay, not sure how it happened, but I googled a fix and set it straight again. Immediately after I save changes Avast pops up with an advertisement saying something along the lines of "Software trouble? Ask how we can help" and the image on the toast window advertisement is A CLOCK.
I have used this product for well over five years, and I've not got a single thing wrong with the program offering other things or showing toast windows for services I don't have (shameless self promotion, no big deal, it doesn't bother me), but I'm gonna lay it just as bluntly as I took it. I'm led to believe the program somehow intentionally changed my date/time so it could then immediately afterward suggest a paid service. That is exactly what it looked like. I hope this isn't the case. I changed my date/time settings again intentionally after this occurred to see if I could make the pop-up reoccur but it didn't show after manually changing the date a few more times. Perhaps I've made this thread just to see if others have seen the same thing happen, or to be convinced it was just a massive coincidence.
Edit: For a little more clarification this happened around 5:30pm on Saturday Nov 4th. It changed from that to Sun Nov 5th, 4:30pm. That's a change of +23 hours and occurred before the DST swap.