How Avast Destroyed My Systems

It’s a month since my system has been damaged (but still working) due to BSDs while surfing the Internet and the guilty is called Avast anti-virus and its half-developed and bugged or half-debugged drivers as it is shown below in the 2 BSD Minidumps (and there were some more I didn’t bother to examine anymore).

Mini042411-01.dmp

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Filename : aswSP.SYS
Address In Stack : aswSP.SYS+1e646
From Address : 0xa8943000
To Address : 0xa898bf00
Size : 0x00048f00
Time Stamp : 0x4dac722c
Time String : 4/18/2011 20:17:32
Product Name : avast! Antivirus System
File Description : avast! self protection module
File Version : 6.0.1091.0
Company : AVAST Software
Full Path : C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\aswSP.SYS

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Filename : fltmgr.sys
Address In Stack : fltmgr.sys+3e9b
From Address : 0xf747a000
To Address : 0xf7499b00
Size : 0x0001fb00
Time Stamp : 0x480251da
Time String : 4/13/2008 21:32:58
Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
File Description : Microsoft Filesystem Filter Manager
File Version : 5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)
Company : Microsoft Corporation
Full Path : C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\fltmgr.sys

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Filename : ntoskrnl.exe
Address In Stack : ntoskrnl.exe+2f2d0
From Address : 0x804d7000
To Address : 0x80700000
Size : 0x00229000
Time Stamp : 0x4d00dcb6
Time String : 12/9/2010 16:42:14
Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
File Description : NT Kernel & System
File Version : 5.1.2600.6055 (xpsp_sp3_gdr.101209-1647)
Company : Microsoft Corporation
Full Path : C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe

Mini050311-01.dmp

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Filename : aswMon2.SYS
Address In Stack : aswMon2.SYS+3fd4
From Address : 0xa8dcc000
To Address : 0xa8de2f00
Size : 0x00016f00
Time Stamp : 0x4dac71d4
Time String : 4/18/2011 20:16:04
Product Name : avast! Antivirus System
File Description : avast! File System Filter Driver for Windows XP
File Version : 6.0.1091.0
Company : AVAST Software
Full Path : C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\aswMon2.SYS

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Filename : ntoskrnl.exe
Address In Stack : ntoskrnl.exe+93ac0
From Address : 0x804d7000
To Address : 0x80700000
Size : 0x00229000
Time Stamp : 0x4d00dcb6
Time String : 12/9/2010 16:42:14
Product Name : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
File Description : NT Kernel & System
File Version : 5.1.2600.6055 (xpsp_sp3_gdr.101209-1647)
Company : Microsoft Corporation
Full Path : C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe

System Info

Windows XP Pro SP3 (fully updated)
Internet Explorer 8 (fully updated)
avast! Free 6.0.1091.0 (fully updated)
PC Tools Firewall Plus 7.0

Thanks :-[

welcome to the forum. first sorry to here your story. I would suggest you do a clean installation of avast and see if that could help you solve your problem.

Does pc tools firewall accept avast to run?

I have this too, excluding the PC Tools Firewall. And I have no problem. Maybe there is a problem with your system and not avast!. Or maybe you have a program that conflict with avast!. A similar situation was happened to a user in this forum, the solution was reinstalling the operating system since the problem was not avast!. Try installing avast! from scratch. If not solve the problem, you may try reinstalling your system.