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PID number not showing up on Task Manager

Anonymous
2023-03-24T09:19:56+00:00

I’ve been suspecting that someone may have hacked my laptop due to a couple of reasons…and so I researched on ways to find out if my laptop has indeed been hacked and one of the ways was through the netstat -ano command. The article said to take note of the “ESTABLISHED” state and the PID alongside it so that I may cross check the PID in the task manager.

All PID’s seem to have checked out in the task manager, except for one — PID 11228. There were no results for that PID which I find suspicious, so I’d really like to know why that is and how to fix it or get rid of it?

I was able to run the command netstat -b as the internet recommended, and 11228 is nowhere to be found …I ran netstat -ano as well once again, and PID 11228 disappeared as well.

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  1. Sumit D - IA 168.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-03-24T15:34:45+00:00

    Hi,

    This seems to be more of an OS issue. We can try to fix that.

    Right-click Start>Run.

    Type in msinfo32 and press enter.

    Take a screenshot of the System Summary window and post it in the next reply.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-03-24T12:44:08+00:00

    Alright, you have a point and that does make me less paranoid.. It’s just that my laptop has been acting weird lately — my screen would just glitch out of nowhere and my camera would just freeze or turn off for some reason, which is weird cause my laptop is just a year old and I’ve taken care of it pretty well.

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  3. Sumit D - IA 168.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-03-24T12:32:11+00:00

    Then the same is not running, thanks. Why do you think your PC is hacked?

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-03-24T12:17:36+00:00

    Hi Sumit! Thanks for your reply.

    I tried this and got “ERROR: The process “11228” not found”

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  5. Sumit D - IA 168.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-03-24T09:58:37+00:00

    Hi Rick,
    I'm Sumit, here to answer your query at the Microsoft Community.

    If you run taskkill.exe /pid 11228 what is the output?

    Keep us posted.

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