Avast is preventing Thunderbird to download email from POP3 around Oct. 27 2024

Around Oct 27th 2024 Thunderbird stopped downloading my email via POP3.
Found article on Avast about saving cert from Geek:Area and loading into Thunderbird.
I did that, but noticed that cert file is same one I already have in Thunderbird and it expired on that date.
If I disable Mail Shield email download works fine.
For now I instead used Geek:Area and disabled SSL under Mail Shield section until Avast provides new cert.