WTH? cpuz145 SERVICE?

[Cartel]

I was doing some checks here and I noticed a served added this morning when my computer booted up.
I have cpuz for years and have only cpu-z_2.03 here and dont recall cpuz installing itelf before and I dont have cpuz 1.45 so I'm kinda worried something dropped this and maybe it was a virus...
I'm at a loss trying to figure out how or why its there. I run a old version of CC here daily so the temp file must have got swept before I noticed
I see as I'm running 2.03 the same entries are created Does cpuz bundle with any other software like aida64 or something?


ok as I'm typing this I'm doing some testing and I see cpuz 2.03 creats the same entries as I see here but its cpuz155 so hopefully not a virus but I'm trying to figure out where the 145 version came from.
Heres what I see



[bInitDriver] Extract path = C:\Windows\temp
[bInitDriver] GetCurrentDirectory = E:\CPUZ
[bInitDriver] GetModuleFileName = E:\CPUZ\cpuz_x32.exe
[vGetOSVersion] m_iOSVersion = 2 (6.1)
[vGetOSVersion] IsAMD64=1, IsIA64=0, IsAlpha=0, IsARM=0
[bInitDriver] Extract dir = C:\Windows\temp\cpuz155\
[bInitDriver] m_szPath_2=C:\Windows\temp\cpuz155\, m_szFilename=cpuz155_x64.sys
[WinNT_hCreateServiceHandle] CreateFile cpuz155 returned 2 (0x2)
[WinNT_bInstallDriver] szMachineName = ***************
[bDeleteFile] DeleteFile C:\Windows\temp\cpuz155\cpuz155_x64.sys failed (error = 3)
[bDeleteFile] RemoveDirectory C:\Windows\temp\cpuz155\ failed (error = 2)
[dwExtract_SYS] Extract C:\Windows\temp\cpuz155\cpuz155_x64.sys
[dwExtract_SYS] File C:\Windows\temp\cpuz155\cpuz155_x64.sys successfully created
[WinNT_bCreateService] szDestName = C:\Windows\temp\cpuz155\cpuz155_x64.sys
[WinNT_bCreateService] CreateService succeeded
[bInitDriver] bInitDriver returned 0

 

[Solaris17]

Do you have other monitoring software? Many popular tools come with it to display info for you.

 

[Russ64]

I have also previously gone down this rabbit hole

I have CPUZ 2.15 installed and I also use HWINFO64. Currently I have cpuz154 and cpuz159 in my registry (and the files are in C:/Windows/Temp). These exe's are digitally signed and appear to be harmless.

 

[R-T-B]

It sounds like a temporary system service that failed to be removed (system crash maybe?).