What is the "athrx.sys" ?

Our database contains 223 different files for filename athrx.sys . You can also check most distributed file variants with name athrx.sys. This files most often belongs to product Driver for Atheros CB42/CB43/MB42/MB43 Network Adapter. and were most often developed by company Atheros Communications, Inc.. This files most often have description Atheros Extensible Wireless LAN device driver. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 1 reviews.This file contains driver. You can find it in the Drivers section of the System Explorer.

athrx.sys Driver

File details of most used file with name "athrx.sys"

Product:
Driver for Atheros CB42/CB43/MB42/MB43 Network Adapter
Company:
Atheros Communications, Inc.
Description:
Atheros Extensible Wireless LAN device driver
Version:
9.2.0.427
MD5:
a5e770426d18f8ef332a593f3289da91
SHA1:
0015f65693ba340c6740d0a9bdc537954791399c
SHA256:
87ac97758618765814b630cb1a189cd690dc6b0eaae93d80ede7771fb362c9af
Size:
2753536
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32\DRIVERS
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
High oc2

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Latest new variant of the file with name "athrx.sys" was discovered 4337 days ago. Our database contains 128 variants of the file "athrx.sys" with final rating Safe and zero variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.

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  • SAFErating from user PhilippeV for file C:\Windows\System32\DRIVERS\athrx.sys (Variant: 1301940)

    Necessary driver for enabling WiFi network access on some Asus notebooks with its builting WiFi interface card. Disabling/deleting it will forbif you all accesses via wifi (no replacement driver with a generic Windows driver, Windows Update will reenable this device driver via the PlugnPlay drivers control panel). Unfortunately this driver file itself is not signed itself, but it has a secure signature in the driver installation catalog file (.cat, coming with the .inf installation file) (certified with MS Hardware Quality Labs, which is required on Windows 7 to allow this driver being loaded in boot Safe mode with network access). This driver file is installed with another driver from Microsoft: Windows\system32\drivers\vwifibus.sys which allows creating additional virtual Wifi networks above it (this allows connecting, via a secure VPN over the internet, to a remote Wifi access point running on a Windows host, using the same security level as if you were accessing to that Wifi access point in its limited geographical neighborhood). That second driver is installed along with Windows 7 and maintained by Windows Update and fully compatible with this certified Atheros hardware wifi driver. To make sure that this is a legitimate driver, open the Device manager, and check the "driver details" to see the digital MSHQL signature from the device driver catalog, and check the location of installation: the location should be in: :\Windows\system32\drivers\ on most installations of Windows (the exception being only custom installations created in professional environments with variable deployment options for the location of Windows drivers).