For the past few weeks, I turn on my computer and I get a notification that Avast Firewall (and Windows Defender) are turned off. This happens every day and while I used to be able to simply turn the firewall back on again by clicking the button on the Avast application (or even sometimes it will turn itself back on after about a second after the notification), this past week (9/13/2020 - 9/17/2020) that option does not work anymore. Now I need to update, repair, or resubscribe to my Avast service (and even then that doesn't work I've spent $70 on Avast) and whenever I'm done, it tells me to restart my computer for the changes to take effect. But then when the computer restarts, the firewall is turned off again, and I have to finagle with it some more, only for it to turn itself off the next day after shutting down my computer.
I need to know what is going on because I can't take much more of this. This is costing too much time and money (and I'm starting to think it is impacting my PC speed as well, especially when trying to turn firewall back on) and ultimately I may just remove Avast altogether and rely solely on Windows Defender. This is something I do NOT wish to do since Avast has a lot of neat extras that I use daily (one of them being the password add-on).
If anyone else has been having this problem recently and knows what I'm talking about, please post your findings here. Anything I look up about this problem is from forum posts that are five years old and even then the answer is update/repair (which does not have a lasting effect as stated above).
Thank you for your help.
