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Lyon99
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Updated Windows 10 awhile, and while scrolling through my task manager to end several resource intensive processes, I found two processes I've never seen before and would like to know if these are indeed legitimate, or if they might be a virus of some kind or if it may cause an error.
The first was a rundll process. Don't remember what it was exactly, but in my previous experiences it never showed up as a background process that could be ended. When I clicked on the option to open it's file location, it appeared in Sys32 folder as if it were legitimate.
The second Is just called Start. Can't do anything with it other than search online, which gives me the dictionary entry for "start", and open Expand it, which gives me another Start, which can be ended as normal.
I ran an offline scan with Windows Defender, and then a Malwarebytes scan once my computer fully rebooted, and both didn't reveal anything. I also did several targeted scans on things I downloaded recently with both programs and both results came up clean. Normally I wouldn't be bothered by this, but like I said I've never seen these processes in task manager before today and I've heard about virus masquerading as rundll, so just want to be extra precautious.
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The first was a rundll process. Don't remember what it was exactly, but in my previous experiences it never showed up as a background process that could be ended. When I clicked on the option to open it's file location, it appeared in Sys32 folder as if it were legitimate.
The second Is just called Start. Can't do anything with it other than search online, which gives me the dictionary entry for "start", and open Expand it, which gives me another Start, which can be ended as normal.
I ran an offline scan with Windows Defender, and then a Malwarebytes scan once my computer fully rebooted, and both didn't reveal anything. I also did several targeted scans on things I downloaded recently with both programs and both results came up clean. Normally I wouldn't be bothered by this, but like I said I've never seen these processes in task manager before today and I've heard about virus masquerading as rundll, so just want to be extra precautious.
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