Steam hasn't worked well since upgrading Avast from free to Premium

I have been having issues with my Steam access not working since I upgraded to Avast Premium and have spent many hours trying to set up Avast to allow Steam to function properly but I am at my wit’s end. I need some assistance and I see that there are plenty of other issues people have been seeing with their Steam software. I am using Windows 10.

Did you ever get your Steam to work?