I understand your logic in the response but it’s not “absurd”.
I don’t think Avast gets it…Avast 9 should never had been released !!!..this is BETA level software at best.
There are too many bugs on too many major items…VPN, Outlook, Firewall, Online Security, DeepScan, BSODs, etc, etc.
The better option is to uninstall V9 & reinistall V8…so you get good “basic” A/V protection…and hope/wait for V9 to get improved (stable).
The issue if you read the Forum is that the user base has lost confidence in this release…I don’t blame them.
If you want, I still have all the old links you can read from AVG8 to AVG9 where it was estimated they lost almost 40% of their user base in just six months.