M1 MacBook Pro Freezing

Great - MalwareBytes is harmless and written by long time Contributor to these Forums. Other AV are an invitation to disaster.

As for Finder freezing - if not Returning under 14 Day Return Policy - Perhaps Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac

Hi MyTech1583,

Thanks for posting in the Apple Support Communities forum. We understand your MacBook Pro is freezing up when completing certain behaviors, so we'd like to offer the troubleshooting steps listed in the article below:

If an app freezes or quits unexpectedly on Mac

Does this occur when any other apps or functions?

Take care!

Does this happen even when booted into Safe Mode. Restart and right away hold Shift key. It does a repair Disk, clears cache files and only loads Apple Software and Fonts. Test and allow it to run in this mode for about 20 minutes and restart in Normal Mode and test again.

Have ask, any antivirus software installed or was Migration Assist used at initial setup? If no to both and still under the 14 Day Return Policy - Return and do not waste time figuring what the problem is

Fantastic and Thank You too.

Also check your other posting on Driver Removal