@ Igor
OK, DavidRAvastSvc.7z (80,440KB) has been uploaded, can you confirm it has been received ?
FireFTP worked this time and is reporting success, received OK.
No a reboot didn't make it bat an eyelid, as soon as avast was up and running it was right back at it looping like a good-un. I couldn't get into the settings to cancel the schedule, hence my lash-up of hacking the avasy5.ini which worked after a fashion.