Avast detected RTCore32.SYS

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I was using my PC, and Avast alerted me with a pop up that said something about a suspicious file that was found (RTCore32.SYS). This is in my C>Program files>EVGA Precision folder. It had options listed of available action. “Ignore” was recommended. I selected ignore, and it then said a virus was found on my system, and that it was recommended that I do a full boot scan which I did. The scan took awhile but nothing was found. After the boot scan, I went to the Precision folder and right clicked it and scanned it. No virus found. I then went to the actual RTCore32.SYS file and scanned it. Again no virus found. RTCore32.SYS is a legit file that is part of the Precision overclocking software.

Any ideas what happened and why??

Thanks!

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Hi…

Sounds like a false positive. However, just to make sure, you might want to scan the file over at Virus Total located here…

http://www.virustotal.com/

If it comes out clean, you can exclude it from both the main and real time scanners. :slight_smile:

Best Regards…

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Maybe just a false positive as ardvark posted… nothing more…

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If it was a false positive, then why would Avast flag it, then after a full scan, NOT flag it??

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Are you sure the file is still there?
Are you sure that an update does not happen in meanwhile?

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Yes the file is still there. I can see it in the folder, and it’s clean. I looked through the Avast logs, but did not see anything logged about the incident. Shouldn’t it be there??

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Yes, if your log level is Notice… into the Warning section will be the detections…
Sorry Tipton, I’m not being that helpful as I can’t really understand what gone wrong, I mean, the weird avast behavior.