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Weird behavior, possible Trojan
Symptoms:
1. Volume icon appears with a red cross even though all sound devices are working.
2. With UAC set to default, a notification pops up at startup asking my permission to run explorer.exe
3. I can't run some programs.
4. Malwarebytes web protection suddenly disabled and can't be re-enabled. I'm using the latest one.
5. System restore fails all the time, so can't go that path either.
I suspect it is malware that targets/makes a fake explorer.exe, but not entirely convinced since there is only one instance and the CPU load is not constantly high. but I want to know if anyone has encountered this before and might point me int the right direction, like the name of the malware, perhaps.
Thanks, everyone!