AVG AntiVirus is Picking Up Infection in Toshiba Program Files

3Hello Folks,
I am new to the forum. I wasn't sure which board was appropriate for my post, but I'd thought I'd start here.
Here are my specs:
Toshiba Satellite Notebook L355-S7831
Windows Vista Home Premium
32 Bit
My computer crashed the end of last month, and I am not 100% certain why, but I suspect the virus that my AVG Anti-Virus software might have something to do with it: "Trojan Horse Generic 32. TUJ" might of had something to do with it.
I did a clean install with Toshiba Recovery Disks. Up until April 9 2013 AVG did not pick up any viruses or infections. However, on April 12 2013 AVG picked up this infected file:
C:\Program Files\Toshiba\TOSAPINS\COMPS1\Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility (3264bit)0\MANUAL\B27611B.EXE.
I am attaching a screen shot (jpeg) from AVG Anti-Virus.
AVG did not heal, quarantine, fix or remove the infected file. Any suggestions as to how I fix this file? Should I find the file on my Toshiba Recovery Disks and possible copy to the infected file directory possibly overwriting it?
Any help would be appreciated. This is a long, long ride trying to get my computer up to speed. No 'cashola' for a new one right now.
Many Thanks,
Byrd
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Satellite L355-S7831
It's essentially a false positive, Byrd. AVG is the only AV I know that picks it up.
The original file (which you restored to the hard disk when you returned it to original out-of-the-box contents using Toshiba recovery media) has a bad digital signature.
The downloadable replacement does not.
You can just ignore the whole thing if you like. See my reply to that situation.
Of course the site rebuild destroyed all those previous links. Get the revised utility here.
Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility for Windows Vista (32/64bit) / XP
-Jerry

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* go to ''about:memory'' by keying that into the location bar the report that is generated may be of help - it gives tooltip info on mouseover of items, and has a button that tries to reduce memory usage

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