Just a weird thing this morning. Turned on my laptop ( I had it in sleep mode all night ), and discovered my Avast Free dashboard was open. Telling my I am protected, and everything is up to date. This was especially weird to me as I haven’t even opened avast in well over a week. I was just wondering if this was something that could just happen, the program being open? Or if it signifies some type of issue? I mean nothing was changed on it, I checked, and my computer history shows nothing was opened or accessed while I was asleep, as I worried about maybe remote control/hacking.
Hi sychomike13 
I really have no idea what could have happened : Maybe the cat has walked over your keyboard 
But if you are worried, and want someone to look at your laptop :
Please follow this turtorial https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
Than start a new topc here https://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=4.0 and attach the requested logs.
As soon as an expert is online and available he/she will help you.
Greetz, Red.