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I wanted to uninstall a program on my pc and from the apps and features list I also saw a weird program that i have never seen before there, its just called: 0.0.1 and its 6Gb big, all i can do with it is uninstall no more information. what is this? Should I uninstall it?

When i run my AVG antivirus it says everything is fine and i tried searching for program 0.0.1 on my pc and it found nothing, also googled it but found nothing.

Heres a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/xWsCT
 
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I don't think that you can accidentally get a 6 GB virus. Neither do I feel like anyone can or has any reason to create such a big virus. Maybe it's something that you had installed previously on an External HDD? Maybe something that you deleted by using another method and you can still see it as a corrupted file there? Anything among these lines?

Anyway, I would suggest you to also perform a scan with an Anti-Malware program instead such as MalwareFox just to be on the safe side.
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Find the file location in Windows Explorer. Right click on the file and select Properties from the context menu. That should give you some more information on the file. When you have more information Google it. I tried Googling 0.0.1 and that's not enough information to determine what it is. The other thing to do is see if it is even running. I would download Process Explorer from Microsoft, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer, and use that to see if it is running. PE should give you the name of the company that wrote it.
 
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andretoniste

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I cant right click on it, nothing happens, heres a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/xWsCT how do i find it in Windows Explorer?
 
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I don't think that you can accidentally get a 6 GB virus. Neither do I feel like anyone can or has any reason to create such a big virus. Maybe it's something that you had installed previously on an External HDD? Maybe something that you deleted by using another method and you can still see it as a corrupted file there? Anything among these lines?

Anyway, I would suggest you to also perform a scan with an Anti-Malware program instead such as MalwareFox just to be on the safe side.
 
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