r/computerviruses • u/Only_Humor1081 • 1d ago
Question are these subtle signs or malware/virus?
im just a little worried but i jus want to be sure yk? i havent really noticed these things running before and my pc feels a little slower than usual. Im no pc expert i just want to be reassured
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u/Shorter_513 1d ago
Mate if you don’t understand what is what in Windows, please keep yourself away from all the menus and settings. This will spare you lots of headaches and money spent on “antiviruses” recommended by bots on Reddit
The processes/elements on the screenshots are just Windows things or a random connection block from Malwarebytes (it sometimes shows just bizzare false positives). You have nothing to worry about
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u/AlexiaTheTechGirl 1d ago
No, those processes are normal, startup tasks look normal and that warning isn't a sign of malware
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u/TeslaDemon 1d ago
If you're not tech savvy, poking through your computer looking at things you don't understand is a great way to waste all of your time and induce panic for no reason.
It's like if you popped the hood of your car and pointed at random slightly worn/greasy parts asking the car subreddits "is my engine going to blow up from this?"
All of this is normal stuff. Let your security software and Windows itself do it's job.
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u/JRT_Space 11h ago
Yeh and thats how many people get infostealers because antimalware tools suck at "Doing their job" when malware uses living off the land.
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u/Born-Sir-6676 22h ago
I've never heard a more pompous self inflated ego
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u/araidai 18h ago
I’m not a mechanic at all, and I won’t ever pretend to be one or claim I am, so I know for a fact if I see something that to me looks out of place in a car, then I’ll ask if it’s broken or not, when it could be perfectly fine. Same concept with Task Manager
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u/Born-Sir-6676 18h ago
and then you should get an actual answer instead of being brought down by a bunch of incels on reddit
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u/Kronk5000 20h ago
Poking around lol, they’re in Task Manager mate. Get a grip.
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u/araidai 18h ago
That’s still “poking around”.
I’ve had people ask me if “is this a virus? is that a virus? what about this one?”
I don’t blame them for wanting to double check or learn at all, but yes, Task Manager still has the ability to make those unaware to feel unsafe/paranoid about things going on in their computers.
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u/Kronk5000 12h ago
I figure poking around would be trying to fix it themselves, which they’re not doing - they’ve just seen something they deemed anomalous and asked a question about it.
This is the same as when Windows processes flash a CMD window on startup and people think they have a keylogger. Asking and learning is how we gain knowledge.
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u/DoneDeal14 19h ago
The most dogshit search ever implemented must consume 10% of your ram to pull up bing results of discord when you simply try to open the app
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u/Significant_Fox_7697 1d ago
Why look under the hood if you’re not a mechanic bro
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u/Kronk5000 21h ago
They’re only asking a question, a lot of uppity pricks in this thread.
I’m a comp-sci major working for the government and you’d be amazed how many IT adjacent people I work around that don’t know the basics. But learning and providing autonomy is how people become more savvy.
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u/rifteyy_ Malware Removal Expert 1d ago
Task manager and task scheduler aren't tools to diagnose a malware infection. No point in using them
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u/rifteyy_ Malware Removal Expert 13h ago
No, they aren't, they were never designed to be proper malware tools
Malware utilizes sometimes detection of the Task manager process and you also lack a lot of important tools in Task manager.
Same with Task scheduler, some malware is able to not display itself in task scheduler.
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u/JRT_Space 10h ago
Yes and no. They can help u see it if its obvious. Most aint though. One of the best things u can do if ur super suspicious that antimalware scans arent catching it is look in your %temp% folder. Anything like .exe, .bat, .cmd, etc in ur temp folder is a red flag. If you know a little bit more about computers u can use Windows + R and type "eventvwr.msc" but, at the same time if u dont this can just be confusing and cause paranoia. The main one u wanna look at is 4688 in security. Most of these will just be normal windows and microsoft things. Keep in mind im NOT an expert by any means like the other guy who responded here is, but i do know a little bit. Paranoia can be just as much a system destroyer as malware can. U see the wrong thing, (such as anything related to SixUnited's OSD.exe which has no descriptions on the services). And u delete them and suddenly dont have the caps lock notification. And if you see malware that ur antimalware isnt catching, its best to get experts on bleepingcomputer.com, who are super helpful with that stuff rather than try to handle it yourself because many will attempt to create registry keys for startup to bring it back. And, trust me. Very few people out there except some of the best of the best have the right knowledge and skill to read regedit safely lol. And again take what i say with a grain of salt as im not a computer expert like many of the other people here but i hope it does shed some extra light too.
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u/Middle-Principle-905 1d ago
none of the circled processes are malicious, they are standard, core components of windows, settings is the modern windows settings app that handles, as you might've guessed, the settings, the windows default lock screen controls the background and display of your lock screen, search manages the windows search bar and start menu query features, which is why it occasionally uses a bit of cpu/ram when active, also, task manager is not an antivirus, modern viruses can hide very easily under other processes with DLL injection, rendering task manager useless for stuff like this, if you want to know if you actually have viruses use something like malwarebytes or kaspersky virus removal tool
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u/lupaspirit 4h ago
Those are safe. However, the usage could indicate that the computer is older and may be time for an upgrade.
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u/Gaming-ninja 1d ago
Bro is getting scare of the settings and search I am sorry you need help because this circle task are normal
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u/Rough_Parsnip_4500 1d ago
settings means settings, and search is js the service used by windows when u search up stuff on ur computer. the windows default lock screen is js the process used by windows for ur lock screen. just dont fiddle too much with the settings and menus and buy antiviruses for system processes 😭ull just probs waste ur time lmao
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u/Light_Legend 22h ago
Why you guys are acting stupid in the comments ? OP's obviously asking if those tasks/services are the "original" ones from Windows, or if it is malware that pretends to be them. This is literally a pro malware sub, you guys should be aware of these.