What is the "athw8x.sys" ? Variant 16784918

Our database contains 35 different files for filename athw8x.sys but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the athw8x.sys then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name athw8x.sys. This file belongs to product Driver for Qualcomm Atheros CB42/CB43/MB42/MB43 Network Adapter and was developed by company Qualcomm Atheros Communications, Inc.. This file has description Qualcomm Atheros Extensible Wireless LAN device driver. This file contains driver. You can find it in the Drivers section of the System Explorer.

Product:: Driver for Qualcomm Atheros CB42/CB43/MB42/MB43 Network Adapter
Company:: Qualcomm Atheros Communications, Inc.
Description:: Qualcomm Atheros Extensible Wireless LAN device driver
Version:: 10.0.0.205
MD5:: 0322db3e6aa9afa3b32838d0a0c3f7c1
SHA1:: db837faff52c9cadb3f4c40cf39049bda2de423b
SHA256:: e5b7bab07a8348e6a85cfe568c4d9f3c6f5f0338cb2dd10108e86d0c36f113e8
Size:: 3645440
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32\DRIVERS
Operating System:: Windows 8
Occurence:: Medium

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This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
avast! Internet Security	2016-04-25 09:56:29
McAfee Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware	2016-01-27 03:00:34
avast! Antivirus	2015-06-01 21:47:35
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.2	2015-02-24 15:57:12
AVG Internet Security 2015	2015-01-31 17:11:15
Norton Internet Security	2014-08-10 11:53:14
ESET Smart Security 7.0	2014-06-12 01:30:45
Norton 360	2013-12-21 10:13:40
Kaspersky Internet Security	2013-08-22 05:02:37
ESET Smart Security 6.0	2013-04-23 21:31:09

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This file is a system driver for a special device - in this case for the Qualcomm Atheros CB42/CB43/MB42/MB43 Network Adapter - it serves as a Extensible Wireless LAN device driver. This driver is loaded by operating system when wifi communication using this device is needed.

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