I got an alert last night that avast needed to restart my computer, with no further details given.
After doing so I noticed the avast icon in my system tray had a little red x on it, alerting me that I am unprotected, trying to open avast to investigate the problem, I'm greeted with the loading screen, telling me "this shouldn't take long", but it appears to be stuck on this screen indefinitely.
I've already tried right clicking and clicking "open avast user interface", and according to avast shield control "all shields are on"
Restarting has also not solved the problem