Is this inhibited by Free avast! ?

In a newspaper there was a warning about a problem after visiting a website:
The PC freezes and the display says: “Pay up or die”.
Is this kind of attack inhibited by Free avast! ?

Thank you
Sven Ingvar Jonsson
Stockholm

Is this kind of attack inhibited by Free avast! ?
Tjena grabben ;) Nope, sounds like a message from a Trojan.Ransome

see instruction for how to get help here https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
attach Malwarebytes / Farbar Recovery Scan Tool / aswMBR logs

when done, somone from malware removal team will have a look… it may take some hours before they are online

what website was this? … post link unclickable … http as hxxp and www as wxw