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"ZCVEN" system file in root; what is it?
Hi, just the other day I made a fresh Windows installation from a clean official ISO and after applying all the updates, installing my drivers and then making a clone with CloneZilla I noticed that the root of the system drive had (among the usual bootmgr, bootsect.bak, hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys) also a file by the name of ZCVEN (without any extension). It is listed as a system file and there is no other information about it under Properties. What is most suspicious is that I cannot find any information about this file on Google either.
It's not so much that I am worried that it is a virus as much as I am curious now just what exactly it is, and if it's safe to remove it. The file size is 407 KB and has a modified date just several hours after the rest of the system files.
I looked on my brother's laptop who made an installation from the same ISO file and he has a similar file called "LZJWE" only slightly smaller in size, so likely the file name is randomly generated. At this point I am just wondering if this is a part of Windows or created by some other software.
Thanks for any insight