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    Exclamation Unknown Browser Profiles? Possible Virus?

    I got a message stating that I had 3 out of 6 browser profiles blocking third party cookies. I clicked to disable them, and I found three browser profiles that I do not know:

    S-1-5-18-{ED1FC765-E35E-4C3D-BF15-2C2B11260CE4}-0
    S-1-5-19-{ED1FC765-E35E-4C3D-BF15-2C2B11260CE4}-0
    S-1-5-20-{ED1FC765-E35E-4C3D-BF15-2C2B11260CE4}-0

    Does anyone have any idea what these are?

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    Hello Tykune,

    You got a message from where?

    Best regards.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tashi View Post
    Hello Tykune,

    You got a message from where?

    Best regards.
    When I click to scan my system, I get the message below where it asks to clean temp files. At first it said 3 of 6 profiles were blocking third party cookies, and these kind of just appeared out of no where so I have no idea what they are. So I decided to block them as well, and sought to get advice or info here on what they were.
    Last edited by tashi; 2016-04-07 at 07:25. Reason: Moved from the malware forum to the Spybot forum. :-)

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    Hello Tykune,

    What is the operating system and,

    Which version and edition of Spybot do you have installed: https://www.safer-networking.org/

    Best regards.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tashi View Post
    Hello Tykune,

    What is the operating system and,

    Which version and edition of Spybot do you have installed: https://www.safer-networking.org/

    Best regards.
    Windows 7 and I am using Spybot - Search & Destroy 2.4, Home User Edition
    Last edited by Tykune; 2016-04-07 at 07:41.

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    Would it help if I listed all the profiles?

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    Hi Tykune,

    Perhaps you could provide a screenshot?

    A similar thread: https://forums.spybot.info/showthrea...wsers-Detected

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    Quote Originally Posted by tashi View Post
    Hi Tykune,

    Perhaps you could provide a screenshot?

    A similar thread: https://forums.spybot.info/showthrea...wsers-Detected

    Best regards.
    The browser profiles seem to have mysteriously disappeared.. I am not sure why. But now half of my physical memory is being used constantly, and I am not sure why...

    Showing processes from all users has shown that I have about 12 svchost.exe listed, which I am not sure if that is normal.

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    Hello Tykune,

    Quote Originally Posted by Tykune View Post
    Showing processes from all users has shown that I have about 12 svchost.exe listed, which I am not sure if that is normal.
    Please see this article at How-To Geek.

    Hope that helps.
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