Apparently the uninstaller of said program was poorly designed. Upon further digging I found out that it was a leftover service file by a VPN tunnel program called ‘Outline’ that I uninstalled last week. Also, Microsoft created services are usually signed and contain publisher details but this wasn’t the case. It startled me a bit because I didn’t install any new apps recently and it appeared all of a sudden. It was set to enabled and was allowed to start automatically upon User login. Today, when I opened up Startup Programs (formerly known as msconfig.exe) in Task Manager in Windows 10, it showed me a file called “ Program” with no icon or publisher details. This allows you check the resource usage as well as figure out unknown/suspicious executable files running silently. It’s always a good idea to check the running applications and startup programs on every operating system.
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