If It Can Update You’ll Be Fine, Otherwise It’s Time For A Support Call
Over the weekend a number of people found their PCs freezing roughly 20 seconds after it starts up; a hard reboot the only way to unfreeze the machine. Unfortunately, the next boot you will see the same behaviour and you will be stuck in a labour intensive reboot loop. A few technically inclined users started disabling background apps, and found that even if everything but Avira was disabled they still locked up. Others tried safe mode to immediately remove Avira in Safe Mode and both found that the moment Avira was removed they no longer had lock ups.
Avira investigated and determined a part of the Avira internal Firewall was causing the lock ups. The problem first occurred on last Friday, with Avira responding on Monday with a patch addressing the problem. If you are still encountering lock ups, Avira asks you reach out to their support team to allow them to get you back up and running.
"A recent update from Avira is resulting in Windows 10 and Windows 11 processes not starting. The issue is caused by the Avira internal Firewall under a rare condition," Avira told BleepingComputer.
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Wow. im been having a nightmare with my less than 6 months pc for the last week. And i have ppl saying i got malware due to accessing sites with malwares. after a few days with the issues, finally have to go into bios to do a complete windows reintall (couldn’t even load any windows settings in windows due to the quick freeze).
After install of avira, then realised it gone into the poor habit of having its firewall turn off and could not be turned on (during my 13 years with avira, this sort of absurd incident has appeared several times.) Finally managed to repair avira and turn on firewall.
I thought i bought protection.
End up the protection is the malware itself