Statefull Firewall Downloading

[thewall]

I have a Macbook M1 running Ventura, i needed to do a restart that is when i got a message saying "cannot restart as statefullfirewall is downloading", what is this?

 

[Alpha Centauri]

You've likely searched Wiki already. Has this MBP (or ever was) a work related computer?

 

[thewall]

no just used at home for general web surfing