Is this malware?

[manveruppd]

awl89xdz.sys
Google search comes up with no results. AVG's anti-rootkit proggy found it in my System32\Drivers\ directory. Anyone know if it's legit or can I safely delete it?

 

[manveruppd]

Update: nor is the file mentioned anywhere in my registry!

 

[BloodyL]

I'd hazard a guess at yes, the filename seems random after the awl string.

 

[Fanatic]

I have loads of these in my /System32/Drivers folder. 290 roughly. Different names but similar.

A pic of the top bunch

 

[BloodyL]

No offence sir, but if you cant recognise most of those then trust your anti virus software.

ACPI, ALI (Acer Labs Incorporated) IDE, ATAPI, and CDFS are just a few that should remain.

 

[Craig321]

I have loads of these in my /System32/Drivers folder. 290 roughly. Different names but similar.

A pic of the top bunch

[IMGhttp://img73.imageshack.us/img73/4296/capturebp3.jpg[/IMG]

Pretty much everything in there will be used by your computer on a day to day basis.

 

[Fanatic]

Really? Oh blast. I have already deleted them all.

 

[manveruppd]

Ouch, looks like my thread killed Fanatic's computer!

Anyway I deleted awl89xdz.sys and a day later I've seen no ill-effects yet. I generally trust AVG, but thought I'd check because an hour before finding this it also identified the executable for Eternity's Child (a game bought through Steam) as a Trojan.

 

[BloodyL]

That's AVG for you, it is far too trigger happy.

 

[pmbuzz]

Google shows this http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=aw...s=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

 

[Fanatic]

That's cool

 

[manveruppd]

Huh... weird, I thought they didn´t allow indexing by external search engines on this forum...

 

[Farore]

Might be!

 

[bledd]

undelete them, lol