yesterday I downloaded and installed the latest Avast Home Edition 4.7.844 and I just noticed that when I checked the version number and it’s still saying 4.7.827
Even after booting and restarting?
If you repair your installation through Control Panel, will the problem remain?
yep, still says 8.7.827 after reboot[s] and repair, this is happening on 3 different computers I have here
found out what the problem was, I downloaded 4.7.844 from BetaNews and their link was obviously still pointing to the previous version. Should have just gone staight to Avast site like I normally do, oh well another day another lesson.
Living and learning ;D
Just go to Program Settings, Update(Basic) set both to automatic updates 
u may never have to worry about the update again… hehe
Well that works for the data base update (VPS), but I don’t care to have avast automatically update the program. I prefer to have it tell me there’s an update available. I could be in the middle of something important and not able to reboot right after the new program install. For this reason, I have mine set for ‘ask when program updates are available’. This way when there’s a program update, I get the ‘green pop-up’ telling me so - and if I’m not busy, I’ll click on it to go ahead and update. Otherwise, I’ll get the newer program later.
Just my $.02 worth 
Hmmm… I have auto update on for the program, but avast has never forced a restart. I just choose restart later.
The program updates are released but to avoid excessive load on the servers the auto update check happens randomically every 7 days and it’s not checking every time you connect to the Internet as with the iAVS checks. Every avast installation has a unique, randomly generated GUID (“general unique identifier”) associated with it (it is generated during installation). This ID is random, but fixed.
Just my $.02 worth ;D