I’ll give it a try in a sec. I did run Avastclear and ran a bootlog session. The last two commands before stuff stops loading…

Loaded driver aswVmm.sys
Loaded driver aswRvrt.sys

This would seem impossible, as I searched the drive for all asw files. So these are clearly hidden from me.

And then we still have the mysterious…

Loaded driver ??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\aswFW.sys

Which would also seem to be impossible…