The aswtdi.exe process is also known as avast! TDI Filter Driver. It belongs to the software avast! Network Shield Support and is owned by an ALWIL Software. There is minimal information gathered about this process. The process can be initiated and stopped from the Services in the Control Panel or by other programs. The program is not visible. It is not a Windows system file. It seems to be a compressed file. The process contains a security rating of 36% dangerous making it relatively safe to to operate according to the users; it is generally better if the user operates this process under vigilant conditions within his or her computer system; in order to minimize any possible dangers to the user’s computer system, the user needs to be aware of the possibilities that this process may contain some possible threatening materials, such as Trojan, virus, worm, and any other potential dangers (which makes this process vulnerable to virus writers) that needs to be aware of, as well performing specific measures which can be done whenever this program is being operate in order to guarantee the security and stability of the user’s computer system. It may be advisable to keep this program running and not disable it as disabling it might cause the computer system to behave in an inappropriate manner.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. aswtdi.sys. is used by avast! TDI Filter Driver, If you shut down aswtdi.sys, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop aswtdi.sys, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is avast! TDI Filter Driver, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed aswtdi.sys

A process usually a part of an installed application such as avast! TDI Filter Driver, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if aswtdi.sys. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that aswtdi.sys, belongs to, in this case avast! TDI Filter Driver