a blue screen bug and suspect it is related to Avast Free Antivirus

[Microsoft Windows]

It all started when I opened a computer game, which triggered a blue screen error code: system_thread_exception_not_handled, followed by occasional PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA errors. I found online that this might be related to drivers, so when I used HP Support Assistant to check for driver updates, I encountered a blue screen with error code DRIVER_VERIFIER_DETECTED_VIOLATION. After using WinDbg, it showed that the main issue was 'Unable to verify timestamp for aswArPot.sys'. I found that aswArPot.sys seems to be related to Avast. After I manually uninstalled Avast Free Antivirus, the blue

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