Avast self-defense blocking iqvw64e.sys

Viruses and worms
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Hello,

My avast self-defense is blocking an Intel storage driver iqvw64e.sys

Why would that happen? It has no virus.

\device\harddiskvolume2\windows\system32\drivers\iqvw64e.sys

2

Test the file at VT (https://www.virustotal.com) and post the link to the result here.

3

Also consider this information from freefixer:
https://www.freefixer.com/library/file/iqvw64e.sys-250070/

Issue also earlier discussed here in this community: https://community.norton.com/en/comment/7973771

polonus

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Hi, see: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=314319.msg1675310#msg1675310

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Why would that happen? It has no virus.
A vulnerability in iqvw32.sys and iqvw64e.sys drivers has been discovered in the Intel Network Adapter Driver.

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130854/Intel-Network-Adapter-Diagnostic-Driver-IOCTL-DoS.html

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2291

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2291