Well right some mayjor issues are occoring with Avast! on my computer, luckly WinDBG has the service process attached, so I am able to document each issue that is occoring, but this issue happened last night when a Fatal IE6 Crash deadlocked the RPC, but also likely may have injected something that is causing Avast! to attempt to terminate the process, and I don’t know how long this will hold knowing that I might be remotely connected to the hackers that want the AvastSvc process terminated which could also cuase a Stop Error if I were to keep the debugee attached but here is the full details,
Currently AvastSvc is currently at CPUs 40% to 60%,
the other 2 security processes such as smss.exe is at 5% to 20% and csrss.exe at 2% to 10% are going activly wild right now which concerns me the rootkit is in progress running in internal memory, causing it to act like this, in addition, a Zero-Day Crash exploit is affecting the critical files running the AvastSvc process,
Also it is deadlocking most of my files and programs from running perperly, a sure sign a rootkit is currently around, I’ll post a second reply once I get the crash infomation on it.
File that triggers the Zero-Day Kill switch transfered from smss.exe and likely the rootkit injection is aswRep.dll,
Here is the crash log and other offsets that trigger this issue,
First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling.
This exception may be expected and handled.
eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=7ffa4000 edx=07bd9898 esi=00000000 edi=00000000
eip=00000000 esp=050ffc18 ebp=050ffc60 iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz ac po nc
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00010212
00000000 ?? ??? <— Zero-Day offset crash
Offsets to the offending area of the Zero Day,
00: 0x0 <---- Zero Day triggered by smss.exe
01: aswScan_7be0000!aswscnDllMain+0x5a
02: Aavm4h!AavmSpamSetOption+0x92
03: ntdll!LdrpInitializeThread+0x7f
04: ntdll!RtlReleasePebLock+0xf
05: KERNEL32!_lopen+0x42
06: ntdll!KiUserApcDispatcher+0x7
Also deadlocks all RPC and OLE processes to the user which makes the rootkit more diffcult to remove because it appears to be controled by some Kernel-Level settings using the RPC against most anti-virus programs.
Also not limited to online antivirus scans since it just simply makes smss.exe block the downloader urls of that block, not even HijackThis can find this problem.