Malware and sleep study possible interaction

Question

I read a recent post that someone inquired about sleep study seeming to be hijacked by malware. The tech declined to approach this mans issue with out any type of validity. 

However, i recently have found something odd on a home windows 10 device. I was a tech for a popular tech retailer for 7 years and worked up until the beginning of 2017. So i have seen plenty of windows 10 installed devices. Today i noticed that icon preview images in explorer were having problems with displaying the preview. I then ran into a strange issue where i re synced my one drive account to my user and a majority of 10 gb worth of pics and files were showing up with red x's under them and i was unable to complete opening any of them as it would just hang. After some investigating through windows log files and system logs...i was brought to a page showing log lists all with a weird icon ive never seen and they were all within a window that identified as sleep study. 

Went to windows/system32 and sleepstudy wasnt even listed??? Anyone???

**Moved from: Windows / Windows 10 / Security & privacy**

Answer 1

Hi,

Thank you for posting your concern. Sleep Study is a Windows utility that only runs on systems that support InstantGo. You can determine if your hardware and software support InstantGo by entering powercfg /a into a Command Prompt window, and then looking to see if **Standby (Connected)**is included in the list of sleep states:

Running Sleep Study requires Admin rights, Windows 8.1 or newer system, InstantGo support. You can refer to this link for more information about Sleep Study.

Let us know how it goes.