Since the OP is not going to do anything, I just want to stress out for future readers: delete your firewall rules so they can be re-created again with the new version or new update / upgrade of avast.
In addition (not instead), in some limited cases, the web shield would also need to be set with "...well known browsers only", but even in those limited cases usually there are better options/settings that would solve the problem too.
Of course, any other security tool that conflicts with avast should be uninstalled before avast's installation, and the respective removal utility should be ran so to clean any conflicting remnants.