For reasons that are rather long and unimportant, I have reason to suspect myself and some of my friends’ computers have been hacked (some serious but rather crazy-sounding threats). I suspect I may be being overly cautious, but id rather be safe than sorry.
When shutting down my computer earlier, I received a “exception breakpoint” error. I had no idea what that is but its odd for me to get such errors at all on my relatively new system, so out of curiosity I decided to reboot and see what was running.
All the processes in the task manager seem fine, except for one, conhost.exe. Now I tried a little research online, which tells me this is a legit Windows file, HOWEVER, some people report a virus of the same name, and it appears even when I dont have any console windows open. When looking at it in my task manager, under Description there is no path file stated for the process, when I try to select “Properties” nothing happens, and if I try to End Process, I am told Access Denied.
I have tried running Malwarebytes, but I got nothing related to this. Is there a way for me to figure out if this is the legit Windows program or a virus? Is there also any other things I should be on the look out for on my or my friends machines which may indicate whether we have been hacked?
@ Pondus: Thank you for the reply! I would like to scan and give you the information, but I have no idea how to locate the file on my computer, since I cannot access the path directory via the “Properties” option. Is there a way I can locate where the file is?
Run FRST and press Fix
On completion a log will be generated please post that
THEN
Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode onto your Desktop.
[*]Close all open programs and internet browsers.
[*]Double click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool
[*]Click the Scan button and wait for the process to complete.
[*]Click the logfile button and the log will open in Notepad
[*]Click on the Clean button follow the prompts.
[]A log file will automatically open after the scan has finished and the PC has rebooted
[]Please post the content of that log file with your next answer.
[*]The report will be saved in the C:\AdwCleaner folder.