VBoxDrvStub error: Unknown image file (NtCreateFile, Unknown Status - 5633)

[Liberry Man]

Host Windows 7 SP 1
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise Workstation, v 8.7.0.570 Ubuntu 14.04 LTE guest

Error dialog "Error in supR3HardenedWinReSpawn": NtCreateFile(\Device\VBoxDrvStub) failed: Unknown Status - 5633 (0xffffe9ff) (rcNt=0xe986e9ff) VboxDrvStub error: Unknown image file \Device\HarddiskVolume2\PROGRA~1\Oracle\VIRTUA~1\VIRTUA~1.EXE at 000000013f740000. (rc=-5633)

Make sure the kernel module has been loaded successfully.

where: supR3HardenedWinReSpawn what: 3 VERR_SUP_VP_NOT_KNOWN_DLL_OR_EXE (-5633) - Process Verification Failure: An unknown and unwanted DLL was found loaded into the process.

[Liberry Man]

VBoxHardening.log

[Liberry Man]

Following this error, Virtual Box reports a new process cannot be started to load a guest VM. This behavior directly follows installation of VirtualBox 5.0.24 using an msconfig.exe selective startup setting with only Windows services started. After installing, upon restarting with msconfig set to Normal Startup with all services loading, and following starting the Virtual Box user GUI, installing a new version of VBox Guest Additions, and mapping Optical Drive "IDE Secondary Master" as VBoxGuestAdditions.iso, then saving the VM guest settings, upon highlighting the guest and clicking Start, I received the error dialog message in the report above.

I have, since filing this report, restarted the Win host using the msconfig settings first detailed above, uninstalled v5.0.24, and re-installed VirtualBox v5.0.22r108108, which I have been running with no troubles.

[rilo]

Faced the same issue. Restarting my host PC resolved the issue.

[bird]

If still seeing the problem with 5.1.10, please check out the most recent 5.1 or 5.0 Windows test build from here.