Free Avast Trashed My Bluetooth

I’ve had to completely uninstall Avast. The recent update on 5/6/20 caused my PC to not even have Bluetooth. The button disappeared to turn it on and off and there was no Bluetooth category in Device Manager at all. I was also starting to get blue screens of death referencing Avast driver file aswstm.sys. Once I completely uninstalled Avast and rebooted, Bluetooth was back to normal and no more BSODs. I’m leary to reinstall Avast. Has anyone else experienced anything like this with the latest update?

  • OS…? (32/64 Bit…? - which SP/Build…?)
  • Other security related software installed…?
  • Which AV(s) did you use before Avast…?