Background processes

CLAWS

CLAWS

CLAWS

Associate
Joined
13 Jun 2005
Posts
1,416
Location
West Midlands
Morning All,

Bit of a weird-ish query. Im starting to think that my PC is compromised somehow.

Despite Avast, Trend Micro and Kaspersky not detecting anything I am still of the mind that the security on my computer has been breached.

One of the reasons that prompted me to think like this is as follows -

I remote onto my home PC from work using logmein.com. Always worked fine and have never had a problem. Yesterday I was remoted on during my lunch break and I got disconnected. I thought ok maybe it just lost its connection so I reconnected. 2 minutes later I get disconnected again. This happened 3-4 times.

When I got home my PC was turned off. When I turned it on again it booted to windows fine but emule loaded up at startup and was downloading something (no idea what).

I havent had emule on my machine since well.... ages. In fact I cant remember ever installing emule on my current machine at all. Anyways I turned off emule and restarted and now emule cant be found anywhere on my machine and it didnt load up on startup either:confused:.

Taskmanager does not show emule in the processes list. Is there any software that can detect hidden processes?

Am I just being extremely paranoid?
 
Hi Bledd,

Only I use the machine. Nobody else knows my logmein passwords or my machine login password.

Yesterday I re-ran a scan with Kaspersky online virus scanner and it up with -TROJ_MASZRE - or something like that.

Anyways, I cleared this as kaspersky threw it up as an infection. Re-scanned and this time nothing. Have done a cleanup using CCleaner and all seems to be chugging along fine now.

No more instances of emule running anywhere.
 
May I ask why you had Avast! and Kaspersky on at the same time, or is it just the Kaspersky security suite?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom