Hello All (ctedgeman & tharos213),
Thank you, sincerely, for taking the time to communicate with Avast. My name is Shawn and I am writing to you on behalf of the Avast Customer Care team.
The disruptions you have expressed are regrettably, not the experience we intended for you to have had, or is the intended behavior of the program(s). As bob3160 last wrote, the pop-up reminders to "renew" your subscription(s), are not associated to the earlier referenced in-program settings.
I assure you, your comments did not fall on deaf ears, and I have since reached out to our development team, to investigate this disruption.