We just moved and I plugged in this computer and it booted normally the first time. I went to reboot it, the the Windows logo starts to come up, then magically reboots. If I go into Safe Mode, it gets to aswRvrt.sys for about a second, then it reboots. Unfortunately, none of my Recovery points seem to work. I can get to command prompt, so I ran FRST.exe like was suggested, but the results file is 1.2 megs and I can’t paste it or attach it here. I read a post somewhere else to delete aswRvrt.sys. Instead, I renamed it to aswRvrt-old.sys and tried again. It just rebooted on aswVMM.sys I think instead, and obviously didn’t make a difference. I have renamed -old back to aswRvrt.sys and here I am asking for next step suggestions? I see in the logs under white list that it’s missing the aswRvrt.sys but I did rename it and put it back AFTER I ran frst.exe.
Suggestions? I’d much prefer not to have to re-install the OS if I don’t have to. I can email the frst.txt results to whomever replies?
Fix result of Farbar Recovery Tool (FRST written by Farbar) (x64) Version: 13-03-2014
Ran by SYSTEM at 2008-12-31 17:53:45 Run:1
Running from E:
Boot Mode: Recovery
“C:\PROGRA~2\SearchProtect\SearchProtect\bin\SPVC64Loader.dll” => Value Data removed successfully.
“C:\PROGRA~2\SearchProtect\SearchProtect\bin\SPVC32Loader.dll” => Value Data removed successfully.
HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\AvastUI.exe => Value deleted successfully.
avast! Antivirus => Service deleted successfully.
aswMonFlt => Service deleted successfully.
aswRdr => Service deleted successfully.
aswRvrt => Service deleted successfully.
aswSnx => Service deleted successfully.
aswSP => Service deleted successfully.
aswStm => Service deleted successfully.
aswVmm => Service deleted successfully.
C:\Users\Dan\AppData\Local\SearchProtect => Moved successfully.
C:\Users\Dad\Desktop\OpenDownloaderManager.lnk => Moved successfully.
C:\Users\Dad\AppData\Roaming\Open Download Manager => Moved successfully.
C:\END => Moved successfully.
C:\Users\Dan\Downloads\Setup_ODM.exe => Moved successfully.
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\aswstm.sys => Moved successfully.
C:\Users\Dad\AppData\Roaming\AVAST Software => Moved successfully.
C:\Users\Dan\AppData\Roaming\AVAST Software => Moved successfully.
C:\Users\Public\Desktop\avast! Free Antivirus.lnk => Moved successfully.
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\aswRvrt.sys => Moved successfully.
So I see your suggestion restored from backup registry hives. I had tried Last Known Good as well with no luck. I guess that only Current Control Set, so this does a lot more.
Thank you for continuing to help beyond AVAST problem. Am I pretty much at try a restore of the OS since this still doesn’t work?
Devon
Fix result of Farbar Recovery Tool (FRST written by Farbar) (x64) Version: 13-03-2014
Ran by SYSTEM at 2008-12-31 16:30:41 Run:2
Running from E:
Boot Mode: Recovery
Content of fixlist:
LastRegBack: 2014-03-13 07:20
DEFAULT hive was successfully copied to System32\config\HiveBackup
DEFAULT hive was successfully restored from registry back up.
SAM hive was successfully copied to System32\config\HiveBackup
SAM hive was successfully restored from registry back up.
SECURITY hive was successfully copied to System32\config\HiveBackup
SECURITY hive was successfully restored from registry back up.
SOFTWARE hive was successfully copied to System32\config\HiveBackup
SOFTWARE hive was successfully restored from registry back up.
SYSTEM hive was successfully copied to System32\config\HiveBackup
SYSTEM hive was successfully restored from registry back up.
Looks like he also had Mcafee prior…if OP is going to do a O/S re-install perhaps a FIXLST as you suggested with Comodo removed and Mcafee would be worth a try ?
Removing Comodo didn’t work either. I did the scan as suggested in the link and it found corrupted files but couldn’t repair them. So aswRvrt.sys was merely a victim in this whole thing and not the cause. Thank you so much everyone for jumping in and helping. I really appreciate it. Time to reinstall or see if the drive itself is toast.
Re-install of the OS fixed it all up. Not sure why doing a normal shut down and rebooting caused a ton of files to corrupt. Least it’s back up now. Again, thanks guys.