r/computerviruses • u/Only_Humor1081 • 1d ago

Question are these subtle signs or malware/virus?

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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/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 23h ago

I've never heard a more pompous self inflated ego

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u/araidai 19h 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 19h 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/araidai 18h ago

I don’t disagree with you, the way some people “help” is a bit… interesting lol.

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u/Kronk5000 21h ago

Poking around lol, they’re in Task Manager mate. Get a grip.

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u/araidai 19h 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 13h 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.