I think i have malware or mining virus

[DarkMatter89 0]

I'm having issues with something using 60% of my CPU as soon as i open task manger to try track it down the usage goes away.

Once i close task manger it comes back in about 2 mins and repeats over and over so at moment Iam running my pc with task manger open full time and that keeps it at bay but i want to find this issue and remove it.

I have run a scan on my pc with my ESET and it does not find the issue.

I have removed all my drives and unplugged everything but screen, mouse and key board to try track the file down it still happened so it has to be on the mina windows drive.

I know i can wipe it out of i wipe the drive and reinstall windows and drivers but i don't want to have to do that.

Been trying to track this thing down for about 6 months

Any help would be very helpful.

[Marcos 5,362]

Please carry on as follows:

1. When the issue occurs, enable advanced operating system logging under Tools -> Diagnostics -> Advanced logging in the advanced setup
2. After 30-60s stop logging
3. Collect logs with ESET Log Collector and upload the generated archive to a safe location (e.g. OneDrive, Dropbox,...) and drop me a personal message with a download link.

[cyberhash 197]

51 minutes ago, DarkMatter89 said:

I'm having issues with something using 60% of my CPU as soon as i open task manger to try track it down the usage goes away.

Once i close task manger it comes back in about 2 mins and repeats over and over so at moment Iam running my pc with task manger open full time and that keeps it at bay but i want to find this issue and remove it.

I have run a scan on my pc with my ESET and it does not find the issue.

I have removed all my drives and unplugged everything but screen, mouse and key board to try track the file down it still happened so it has to be on the mina windows drive.

I know i can wipe it out of i wipe the drive and reinstall windows and drivers but i don't want to have to do that.

Been trying to track this thing down for about 6 months

Any help would be very helpful.

Is this happening when you leave the machine to idle for a few mins as it could be something as simple as windows doing its automatic defrag when it is idle and could account for the CPU usage, then dropping when you jump into task manager ?

[DarkMatter89 0]

1 minute ago, cyberhash said:

Is this happening when you leave the machine to idle for a few mins as it could be something as simple as windows doing its automatic defrag when it is idle and could account for the CPU usage, then dropping when you jump into task manager ?

this issue happens when i have games running it only stops when i open task manager and unless windows has been defragging my drives for over 6 months haha but thanks for the help.

[DarkMatter89 0]

45 minutes ago, Marcos said:

Please carry on as follows:

1. When the issue occurs, enable advanced operating system logging under Tools -> Diagnostics -> Advanced logging in the advanced setup
2. After 30-60s stop logging
3. Collect logs with ESET Log Collector and upload the generated archive to a safe location (e.g. OneDrive, Dropbox,...) and drop me a personal message with a download link.

Doing this at the moment and will get in touch soon

[Marcos 5,362]

Also please make sure that you have Idle-state scanning disabled to rule it out as the cause:

[Marcos 5,362]

I've just realized the instructions that I provided above were incomplete. Please collect fresh logs as follows:

1. When the issue occurs, enable advanced operating system logging under Tools -> Diagnostics -> Enable operating system advanced logging in the advanced setup
2. After 30-60s stop logging
3. Collect logs with ESET Log Collector and upload the generated archive to a safe location (e.g. OneDrive, Dropbox,...) and drop me a personal message with a download link.