FAQs
Avast Ransomware Shield

If Webshots says your Photo Directory is read-only and you are running Avast anti-virus, Avast may have mistakenly marked Webshots as a watched directory.

Please check the following in screen in Avast and make sure there are no Webshots directories in there:

See this Avast support article for background (Which files and folders does Ransomware Shield secure): here.