In an effort to resolve the issue, Avast had reacted extremely quickly to reports of the Blue Screen of Death from users via its own forums. This occurred during upgrades to the Windows 10 Anniversary edition from previous versions of Windows, and during clean installations of Avast Antivirus on systems already running the Anniversary Update. While the majority of our users didn’t have a problem, certain HW configurations didn’t mix well with the update. To be specific, when the Windows 10 Anniversary Update was combined with our aswvmm.sys driver on an Intel CPU from the Skylake family with Intel VT enabled in the BIOS, the update resulted in a blue screen of death.Īvast’s head of quality also confirmed that the issue had been thrust into prominence when affected machines were upgrading to Microsoft’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update: Here’s what exactly he had to say on the matter:
Petr Chytil, Quality Assurance Direct at Avast, put the issue down to driver configuration. In particular, the issue looks to have been exclusive to machines powered by Intel Skylake Virtualization Technology, which of course means that a huge majority portion of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update populous was likely unaffected.
The patched Avast files are now known to solve the issue that had been affecting Windows 10 Anniversary Update machines with the antivirus software tool newly and already installed. While most users running PCs with Windows 10 Anniversary Update were entirely unaffected by the software combination, but, much to the distain of Avast, updating to the Windows 10 Anniversary Update had caused a number of machines to go into meltdown via a kernel panic, resulting in the infamous Blue Screen of Death crash being thrust upon the eyes of the PC owner.
Popular antivirus provider Avast has had to rush through a patch to fix an issue that was causing the dreaded “Blue Screen of Death” (BSoD) on some PCs running Windows 10 that have been updated to the latest Anniversary Update.
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