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Rename the file to avscanner.ini.bak . If your computer continues to work normally, you can safely delete the .bak file later [1].
The lights in the room went pitch black. The only light came from the monitor, glowing an eerie, clinical white.
The most frequently cited legitimate source for AVScanner.ini is . According to Microsoft support community discussions, if you have ever installed AVG antivirus software on your computer—even if you later uninstalled it—the installation process may have created this file. The file likely served as a configuration or logging mechanism for AVG's scanning engine at some point during the software's operation. avscanner.ini in c drive
Right-click the file and select Open with > Notepad . A legitimate initialization file will contain readable text, often organized into brackets like [Settings] or [Scanner] , followed by configuration lines (e.g., ScanSubfolders=1 ). If the file opens to reveal a massive wall of unreadable, scrambled binary characters, it is likely an executable file masquerading as text.
To help narrow down why this file is on your system, let me know: What do you currently use? Rename the file to avscanner
or legacy security tools. It is not a standard Windows system file. Its presence in the root directory ($C:$) often indicates: Residual Data
del C:\avscanner.ini
To avoid confusion with files like avscanner.ini in the future:
