I found a workaround for the “mse manual update” taking a few minutes problem. It appears that mse delays the “install” portion of the manual update operation because of the avast shields. (Its best to do this right after a fresh reboot and I usually wait for avast to complete its update) 1) Open the mse window (right click mse icon) and click on the update tab (but dont start the mse update process yet); 2) right click on the avast tray icon; hover the cursor over the shields menu item; left click on “disable for 10 minute's; 3) start the mse update process by left click on the update button in the mse window; 4) after mse finishes updating: right click on the avast tray icon; hover the cursor over the shields menu item; left click on “enable all shields".
I suppose there might still be a problem of both “avast and mse” detecting something simultaneously. However, no one has reported that precise phenomena but have only suggested it might happen. I guess i'll believe it when I see it..
Dont know why you bothered to post your work around
most people know that you dont run two av's, even if one is disabled it's still not recomended.
You know why no one's reporting a conflict phenomena ? because they've more common sense than you and dont want to run the risk of conflict, and even if you do manage to not have an issue between the two av's you are still reducing your protection levels without even knowing it, good luck to you but i believe we dont need twit's like you posting this sort of information in the forum that might encourage some unknowing beginner to try this and really stuff up there system