Hi Darian, hi Pondus,

luckily I just found your post!
Yesterday I had exactly the same problem on my PC: your description matches perfectly the symptons on my machine. In addition to your activities, I bootet my PC from a DvD containing Linux and two independant virus scanners, just to be safe. Both scanners reported 0 findings on my boot drive c: containing the nvsvc32.exe, basically the same result as the quickscan result of Avast. Some more details:

  • I am running Avast program 2014.9.0.2011 on a Windows XP machine
  • Yesterday, Avast had a virus database version from ~10:15 PM, if I remember well

Now, 24h later and after updating to virus database version 140110-0, the symptons are gone without any further interaction! What I am afraid of is, that my system still might have this strange infection. In order to get more info regarding the root cause, I have two questions to Pondus:

  • Are there other users, who made the same or similar expiriences with the virus database version from yesterday evening?
  • Can you confirm or decline, that the root cause of the problem is the virus database version from yesterday evening?

I very appreciate any further help from you guys! Thanks a lot in advance!