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Tykune
2016-04-07, 07:03
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?
tashi
2016-04-07, 07:11
Hello Tykune,

You got a message from where? :)

Best regards.
Tykune
2016-04-07, 07:16
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.
tashi
2016-04-07, 07:29
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.
Tykune
2016-04-07, 07:30
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
Tykune
2016-04-07, 07:34
Would it help if I listed all the profiles?
tashi
2016-04-07, 16:58
Hi Tykune,

Perhaps you could provide a screenshot? :)

A similar thread: https://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?73100-Open-Browsers-Detected

Best regards.
Tykune
2016-04-07, 19:45
Hi Tykune,

Perhaps you could provide a screenshot? :)

A similar thread: https://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?73100-Open-Browsers-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.
tashi
2016-04-08, 00:19
Hello Tykune,



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 (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/what-is-svchostexe-and-why-is-it-running/) article at How-To Geek.

Hope that helps. :)