UPDATE: Reply from avast! email support just came in today. Contents of email below:

Hello,

This issue has been already reported to our developers and our team is currently working on the fix, which will be included in next program update.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Best Regards,

Petr *****
Technical Support

AVAST Software s. r. o.
Budějovická 1518/13A
140 00 Prague, Czech Republic


So they’re working on it now. ;D