You might have to try rebooting and give it another shot as the patch does work and I haven't heard of anyone with the trouble your having disabling self defence, are you sure your disabling it from settings/troubleshooting.
Yes. I went to settings, then troubleshooting. I clicked off the self-defense. However, it refused to keep the setting. Tried rebooting. Didn't help. It's a shame, because I have had no issues with Avast from version 5 until now...
Oh well. Hopefully they test it better. I'll just wait this one out until all of the bugs are ironed out. Thank you again, regardless. Still if anybody has the same issue, this fix might work for them, so your efforts were definitely not in vain.