1. Stop using Tequilla. You do not need it anymore; it's only use is to download i24 for you.
2. Open Avast and click on the cog wheel, a new window opens
3. Click Active Protection on the left side of the Avast Settings window, a new window opens
4. Click Customize next to File System Shield, a new window opens
5. Click Exclusions on the left side of the File System Shield Settings window, a new window opens
6. Click Add, a new row is created
7. Click browse, a new window opens
8. Go through the tree on your boot drive (Usually C:), you are looking for C:\Users\freewaydog\AppData\Roaming\ParagonChat (Obviously, replace freewaydog with whatever your username is on your computer)
9. If you cannot see the AppData folder, you probably have system folders hidden. In that case, open up a Windows Explorer window (NOT Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, the thing that lets you look at your drives), and in the address bar, PASTE the following: %APPDATA%\ParagonChat
This will open to the correct folder. Then just click back in the address bar, and COPY what's in there (highlight, right click, select copy). Then CLOSE the browser popup you had open in Avast, and instead just PASTE (right click, select paste) into the textbox that's next to the browse button.
Click OK. You have now added PC to your exclusions list.