Why 2x in past week has Windows Defender Firewall turned off Internet Access add-ons (Edge, Firefox, Outlook Desktop) temporarily?

[Windows 11]

Monday the 13th of January mid-day (~2PM MDT), firewall stopped all browser communications, turned off VPN (Server not available in the Mozilla VPN Application, no cities in USA available) even though through out the day, until that point I had been using Edge (Open for company portal use of Microsoft365 account, Mozilla Firefox, Desktop Outlook Classic). Computer using Windows 11 Pro from 6 AM was fine up until ~2 PM. At first after running several Malware tools I realized the PC was downloading Microsoft Cumulative Patches which after 14 hours of scans, I was starting to get update prompts

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