On my wife's computer I was using it for around 1 hour, a pop up appeared and said I have been downgraded to free version and another pop up appeared and asked for a reboot.
So I had to uninstall free version and reinstalled premier version, rebooted and Avast changed itself back to free version again

So I did it again and this time It stayed as the premier version 20.8.2432 (build 20.8.5684.602. I used my avast account this time.
There was still 451 days left on subscription. I am baffled how this could happen.
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