Registry Typo Mistakes in latest version

system · 2017-08-15T11:50:05.000Z

Just reinstalled latest Avast after uninstalling and rebooting. Ran sigverif. No errors but under Advanced when you look at the sigverif.txt log you will see:

Unscanned Files:

[c:\windows\systemroot\system32\drivers]
aswrvrt.sys The directory name is invalid.
aswvmm.sys The directory name is invalid.

Looking at the registry entries
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\aswRvrt
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\aswVmm
I see the following for ImagePath:
\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\aswrvrt.sys
\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\aswVmm.sys

There is no such folder as \SystemRoot! It should be

%SystemRoot%

This same error is present in most other asw… entries

bob3160 · 2017-08-15T12:02:33.000Z

Reported to Avast. Thanks, they are looking at it.

pk · 2017-08-15T12:21:14.000Z

\SystemRoot is correct (it’s a symbolic link for kernel-mode, no %–% is required here as % is known only for user-mode),

pk · 2017-08-15T14:15:26.000Z

We also changed prefix string, so these apps won’t complain anymore. This will be fixed in next release.

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