That file sounds like an installer for something Unix or Linux. Whatever it is, it can probably go.
As BOAC said, "What are you 'scanning with' that slows up?"
The "fix" is indeed to boot into Safe Mode and delete the thing. If it won't delete, then I would be very suspicious that you have a nasty that McAfee can't sort. I gave up on McAfee a long time ago, and use AVG Free, which has never failed me.