pontifex

I am having this same issue with weird user account. mine is vhrfnwuz. it shows up on the login screen. If I delete the account it comes back on reboot. I've also set it to deactivated but it reactivates on reboot. I'm running windows 7 and I keep it up to date. I also use Eset Antivirus, MalwareBytes Anti-malware (paid version), Windows Security Essentials, and MalwareBytes Anti-Exploit. I've run scans with all of those and even some other apps but nothing is ever found. I've read online that some programs will create an account to update themselves, like Nvidia does or did this at one point. I don't think I have any Nvidia software on my laptop though. I've also read that a lot of people who run Eset have this problem so wondering if it might be from that? I saw in some forums people run net user <username> to get more details. Like in the case of Nvidia creating it, it shows Nvidia in the comment line but on mine it is blank. It shows that it's never logged on and its only part of the users local group (not administrators) so that's a plus. I see people here saying I shouldn't be able to see the account. Can someone from Eset confirm this is true? I guess to verify I could disable anti-theft and see if it goes away.