Over the past few days, many users have been pouring onto social media platforms and online message boards, complaining that their PC is freezing up randomly if they are running Avira as their AV software of choice. One affected user is Redditor u/kiiniiwiinii, who says that their PC with Avira antivirus keeps freezing on startup. To troubleshoot the issue, they tried disabling all background apps, but the problem was only fixed after they uninstalled Avira for good.