Hi all, someone on the Valorant discord posted the solution, so thought I'd share it here: Apparently something in the new patch removed Valorant as an exception in SOME antivirus softwares (AVAST, Malware Bytes). So, you need to re-set it...

Initially I used to play in a insanely high sens (1.2 800). But I have been slowly lowering my dpi. As my mousepad wasn't large enough for below 0.5, I even bought a larger mousepad. Within a span of 2 months I have lowered my sens from 1.2...