Win10 system file wermgr.exe suspicious
My Windows 10 desktop PC has the file wermgr.exe on the C: drive in 14 locations. Searching the internet for information on this system file says it is in only 1 location C:\Windows\System32\. The Bitdefender notifications log shows the application C:\Windows\System32\wermgr.exe is allowed network access every few days. Bitdefender does not report it as malware. Manually scanning each of the 14 files with Bitdefender does not report any detected malware. The attached JPG file is a screenshot of results from a File Explorer search for all instances of the file on the C: drive.
What do you think? Are these files a problem?
Best Answer
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Upload the files on virustotal.com one by one to check if they are malicious. If they are not, contact Microsoft Support, as these might be Windows system files located in a different location. Deleting them may cause your system to crash or result in a BSOD error. Contact Microsoft Support via the link provided below
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus/
Until and unless VirusTotal shows the files to be malicious by any of the major vendors, the files may not be malicious. If any of the major vendors identifies them as malicious, you can then send the same samples to Bitdefender malware researchers by visiting the link provided below
https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/29358/
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