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[justlukeyou]

My computer keeps crashing so I have checked the device manager. It tells me that I have an error with the "nicsk32".

I have searched around and as far as I can tell it should be disabled but I am concerned as I dont know what it is. As far as I can tell it is a malware problem.

Can anyone advise me please?

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[justlukeyou]

Thanks guys I am going to run that but what is "nicsk32" is it something that should be on my computer but is infected or something that shouldn't be on my computer at all?

[GT500]

justlukeyou said:

Thanks guys I am going to run that but what is "nicsk32" is it something that should be on my computer but is infected or something that shouldn't be on my computer at all?

Assuming the exact filename is nicsk32.sys then Previx says it's a rootkit, Sophos says it's a trojan, and ThreatExpert says it's always malicious.