Yesterday, the version of avast was updated on my system automatically. I rebooted this morning, and get to the windows login screen. After I log in, the system then crashes, giving a blue screen of death. The screen disappears quickly, but I am able to see the file AAVMKER4.SYS mentioned on the screen. Every time I reboot and login, this happens.
So I booted into safe mode and renamed c:\windows\system32\drivers\aavmker4.sys. When I rebooted, the system worked properly again, except the Avast icon in the tray has a small red icon in it, obviously indicating that it isn't running properly. Properties on aavmker4.sys indicates it is version 4.6.652.0.
I've searched the forums and found some other threads with similar problems, but didn't find the exact issue, nor did I find any solutions. Is anyone experiencing this issue? Any solutions on how to resolve it besides removing Avast? I love Avast and would hate to have to live without it.
I have some minidump files available if that will help.
Thanks,
Tauren