So earlier today, I ran into Avast! yelling at me every so often, not very, about the file "atapi.sys" being a trojan. Naturally, I told it to delete it. Some time went by, maybe an hour or two, and it popped up again. So I delete it again. I then run Spybot S&D, and it deletes around 10 random small issues, no trojans or worms or anything. But nothing about atapi.sys. But I dont really think anything of it at the time. Avast! comes up with it again, and again I delete it. But this is where things start going bad. From then on, Avast! would come up, anywhere from every 5-10 seconds, yelling about how atapi.sys is back, and needs to be deleted.
In hindsight, I probably should have searched about it before doing anything drastic. But this had been going on for abotu 20 minutes, and was quite agitated by now. I tried all the options Avast! had. Repair, Chest, Delete. All with the same results, screaming at me a few moments later. So I tell Avast! to run a boot-scan. And then I click "Delete" one last time, and immediately reboot my PC, before the supposed trojan/worm could reinstall itself.
And this is where everything went to HELL. From then on, my PC would BSOD for maybe, a third of a second, after showing the Windows logo, while booting up, then begin to reboot. In an infinite loop. Over and over. No matter what boot choice I used.
I thought that some major virus totally just screwed my PC over. So I go over to the laptop and start searching on Google. And after an extensive search, I slowly begin to realise that this file is in fact a legitimate Windows file. And then I found this site.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=30371So yeah, pretty much what's happening with me, only with Avast!. I'm currently sitting at the desktop of UBCD, in Explorer, trying to find out how to restore atapi.sys, or restoring some amount of files that Avast! got rid of, or w/e.
Please, someone help, ASAP. I cant be without my PC for very long, I require it for too many things.