Hey spicers,
Just came across this happening on several machines on my network and thought I'd share my initial panic and eventual understanding with you all-
Over the past several days, I've had (at least) 4 Windows 7 Pro x64 workstations report that their Kaspersky Licenses were invalid, that none of the protection modules were loaded, and that at every boot Windows would run chkdsk. Upon inspecting each of the machines, I found that the event viewer listed -tons- of NTFS errors (file system is corrupt and usuable. please run chkdsk utility on volume *localvolumename*).
My gut instinct, as we had been hit recently with the oh-so-fun Vobfus.gen worm, was to go full lockdown and prepare for a long weekend of diagnostics and scans. Much to my relief after some further sleuthing, I found that the issues I was seeing weren't infections, but conflicts from a recent windows update (KB2823324) that affected Vista/7/Server 2008 R2 x86/x64 systems with Kaspersky Workstation/Server 6.0.4.1212/1424/1611 installed.
Kaspersky labs are purportedly working on a solution, but the general statement for now seems to be "don't install KB2823324."
What's strange as well is that safemode, in any of its flavors, does not work for any of the machines affected by this (for me at least).
Any others out there having similar issues?
Thanks for reading, hope this helps somebody somewhere-