I am the IT director of a small italian company:
We have the same problem in my factory: we use
avast Pro and yesterday the Av Software prompted an error with "Aavmker4.sys" on some of our pcs.
Later on we restarted the pc and the system crashed on windows loading, restarting immediatly and looping this crash-restart routine.
I tried different types of boot from the win2000 console but the only one working is the temporary modality (in wich the avast providers are not loaded).
I disconnected the pc from the LAN and loaded a ghost image of the system:
-on the first boot everything was fine, but when I reconnected it to the net (and also the internet) Avast updated the version (and this is normal becuase on my ghost there is a version two weeks old) and then asked several times for restarting the system.
- After the first of theese restarts the error with the sys file reappeared and then after also the pc autorestarting loop.
In my opinion this is
some kind of error or malware that afflicts Avast in particular, because the only pc that does not present this problem in our factory is the one that does not have the Av software installed.
I do not have any backup of the LAN without the antivirus for thoose pcs that have the problem, so I need a very fast solution to this issue or my principal will get very angry
Atm the only solution I found is to completly shut down the router of our network and isolate the computers from internet, but we can't stand this situation for long time.
Only the pcs with Win2000 present this issue, we have some WinXP pcs and there everything is fine.
Thank You for your attention,
Filippo Morosini
