A bit of a lesson about maticwallet.com

Viruses and worms
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Hey guys, figured i’d ask about something I ran into quite some time ago. Was doing a casual check through the list of resmon and noticed something a bit out of place. Often these things are just timing, but google didn’t even provide any information about this. I’ve attached a cropped screenshot, and it shows AvastSvc.exe with a PID of 2552, and a description of: “maticwallet.com”. It’s been a while, but I think that was under: “Network Activity”, or “Processes with Network Activity”.

Edit: May have forgot to add the attachment, my mistake. Should be added now.

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There is no attached screenshot.

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Should be attached now, my mistake.

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Well AvastSvc.exe is the main avast service which controls the various scanning engines

What OS are you using where this is displayed ?
What program/function are you using to get this information ?

I don’t see this on either my win10 or winXP systems, just using the Task Manager function.

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Using Windows 10. Fairly certain it was under resource monitor, likely in network activity as mentioned. I don’t know what event occurred to cause this, as it isn’t easily repeatable as far as i’m aware. That’s why I was wondering if someone from Avast could explain why such a description was in one of their processes. Just seemed a bit out of place at the time, especially the description.

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If it is a description in the resource monitor, Overview > Network, I would have thought that the description would relate to what it is doing/scanning/activity and not the file name description name.

I can’t find anything like that on my win10 64bit laptop.

I have some entries, see attached, but nothing like your very cropped image.