Odd behaviour from chrome autodownloading a file

[Chaoticlusts]

Hey all

Been running into a rather odd problem for a while, it seems somewhat virus'y behaviour except I can't find any reference to it online nor does my security software turn anything up in scans (avast btw)

When I launch Chrome it automatically downloads a archive named 'afr.gz' now I haven't actually opened it to have a look I've just scanned it and deleted it but given this has recurred for quite sometime now and if I don't delete it it will simply download another next launch ( so I'll have afr (1).gz). Also this is under windows 7 from what I'm aware .gz is a UNIX extension >_<

Can anyone tell me what's doing this or someway I can diagnose it? googling the filename hasn't given me any results

Very confused at this point

 

[unokitty]

afr.gz

"Automated File Retrieval (AFR) is a plugin for X-Chat written in C. AFR is a queue-based file retrieval utility that can download files from many different types of file servers on IRC."

I'm not familiar with this particular file. But if it isn't part of something else that you installed, I think you have reason for concern...

Note that a file type of gz would normally indicate that the file is compressed.

Best of luck,
Uno

 

[Chaoticlusts]

ok thanx I think I might know where that came from then if it's IRC related, don't know if this makes sense as an explanation but using freenas help chat which is IRC based and I think some live stream chats which were the same maybe the plugin got installed automatically somewhere there (hopefully) still not sure why chrome keeps having it pop up as a bloody download

and yeah I know gz is a compression file (though normally unix not windows) I haven't been game enough to open it though and have a look inside for obvious reasons >_<

The thing that makes me wonder if it's something going haywire rather than a virus or similar is simply that *nothing* seems to turn up googling it, I'd expect if it was a virus it would have spread others would have the problem and there'd be topics around somewhere on it...

Don't know, strange problem. Thank you for the info