???I paid for avast protection like an idiot! Now I get continual pop-ups that subscription has expired ever since I signed up. This was only a matter of weeks ago that I paid for this horrible subscription! As you know…it is impossible to contact Avast by e-mail and I certainly don’t want to try contacting them in another country. How do they get away with this? I can’t get any help at all except to say I’m expired! Everything was fine when I had free service. It was only after I fell for the paid subscription that I had trouble. Who can I go to to report this fraudulent service??? ??? ??? ???
How To Contact avast http://www.avast.com/contacts
Welcome to the forums, pamparrish 
Did you get an email from avast with the registration in it?
If you did, did you restart your computer after entering the registration?