Remote Access Shield Samba Protection blocking network PC

I’ve had to disable “Samba protection” and “Block brute-force attacks” to prevent Avast Premium Security from continuously blocking access to shared folders on my PC within my home office network. I have a laptop which I use for some smaller processing tasks but it needs to read data from and write data to the drives on the main PC to do this. I am connecting as an authenticated user on the main PC (ie, I have set up a user account for the laptop on the main PC) but it still thinks it’s a brute force attack for some stupid reason.

How am I supposed to deal with this? It was all working OK before the latest update. I am on Windows 10 and the PCs are on a wired ethernet. Both are running Avast Premium Security, but not for much longer if this keeps happening.

  • Which version/build of Avast Premium…?
  • OS…? (32/64 Bit…? - which SP/Build…?)
  • Other security related software installed…?

Running Avast Premium Security 21.10.2498 (build 21.10.6772.706)
Edition Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Version 21H1
OS build 19043.1348
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3920.0
No other security or av software installed

Repair Avast:

  1. Avast GUI → Settings → Troubleshooting
  2. Click on ‘REPAIR APP’.
  3. Follow instructions.
  4. Reboot.