aswrvrt.sys issue - can't use recovery menu

What happened before: I updated a game on my PC, then this avast sandbox thingy jumped out of nowhere and annoyed me, so I deactivated it in the avast menu. Then the game updater program did not react anymore and it was not possible to kill it even via task manager. So a short time later I decided to reboot and this is what happened:

The problem: When I boot windows, it does not go past the “Starting Windows” screen. After several hours of googling and checking my hardware, i finally found out that aswrvrt.sys is causing this block, when i tried the safe mode boot, it just stopped there. Reading through some topics here, I tried to use FRST, but whenever i started the repair option, all I got was an empty screen with the windows background, no dialog to select language etc.

What can I do now?

Relevant System specs:
Windows 7
I 3570
ATI RADEON 7950 HD
8 gb ram
Windows is on a SSD

My Editor is already throwing rocks at me, hope someone can help me soon.

BlahC

hey and welcome to the forum.

you should just attach the frst log and from there a malware expert will help you.

you should not try to fix this things without proper training. :wink:

Did you try the repair option from a CD/USB or from the system repair screen ?