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Spiderwatophat
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Hi,
Whenever I open an MS Office application (Word, Excel, etc.) a few command prompts open and close rapidly, one after another. The title bar on the command prompt says:
C:\PROGRA~1\McAfee\MfeAV\MFEAvSvc.exe
There is no text within the command prompt that I can see.
I don’t recognize “PROGRA~1” and the capitalization for the exe file looks odd. This only happens when I open MS Office apps.
This only started happening a couple days ago, and first popped up when I opened an excel file that I downloaded for school. I ran a full scan using Microsoft Defender and an offline scan, but the problem still occurs.
I don’t know if this is relevant, but I did a factory reset of my laptop a couple weeks ago because I clicked a phishing link the month before and was worried there was a virus (but scans using McAfee found nothing). This problem with the command prompt wasn’t happening before the factory reset.
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Whenever I open an MS Office application (Word, Excel, etc.) a few command prompts open and close rapidly, one after another. The title bar on the command prompt says:
C:\PROGRA~1\McAfee\MfeAV\MFEAvSvc.exe
There is no text within the command prompt that I can see.
I don’t recognize “PROGRA~1” and the capitalization for the exe file looks odd. This only happens when I open MS Office apps.
This only started happening a couple days ago, and first popped up when I opened an excel file that I downloaded for school. I ran a full scan using Microsoft Defender and an offline scan, but the problem still occurs.
I don’t know if this is relevant, but I did a factory reset of my laptop a couple weeks ago because I clicked a phishing link the month before and was worried there was a virus (but scans using McAfee found nothing). This problem with the command prompt wasn’t happening before the factory reset.
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