What is 0.dat?

[Shadowz133]

When I turned on my computer today after a thunderstorm (probably has nothing to do with the following) my anti-virus blocked a "rare" app called 0.dat. My anti-virus gave some information about it. It's data path is c:\users\(name)\appdata\local\nvidia\nvbackend\dao\ and then there is two folders which have 0.dat in them. My anti-virus also said; Reputation: unknown, Popularity: rare (I don't know how to translate this properly) and Destination: Suspicious:W32/Malware!DeepGuard.n. I don't really know how to react to this. The anti-virus said it blocked the app because it's not used usually. Any idea what this is?

I use F-secure workstation security.

[homeap5]

Well, it's your AV, so if you trust it, then block that file. If you don't trust it, uninstall F-secure. What is the point to have AV if you're asking for his virus detection on forum?

It's probably false positive, something related to nvidia telemetry.

[Shadowz133]

I'm just interested in what 0.dat is. I tried looking it up but I got mixed results.

[homeap5]

So upload that file to virustotal.

[demonix00]

It's a false positive if you have an nVidia GPU.