For your information the VPS stream for avast 4.8 makes no differentiation between Pro an Home.

The fact that the new business protection range of software have been released they can make the move to the avast6 version. When that happens, no doubt about it, the life support will be switched off and no more VPS updates.

How long the VPS support for 4.8 will last isn’t something set in stone, but you can see from the resurgence of the prompts to update that they want that to happen sooner rather than later.

Avast is still one of the most configurable AVs out there, don’t feel you need all of the shields, simple do a custom install for only select those that which us use/want.