Programs run without user permission.

Question

I apologize  for the text on bad English. I'm not from England.

Briefly. I constantly see that the programs are started and run:

Calculator, Microsoft Text Input Application, Options, Edge browser, Search.

My computer has a daily security update. This is a gaming home computer.

 I use it for very limited tasks: reading news in the browser, Yutube, Steam, and computer game TESO.

 With administrator privileges, only Steam and TESO are launched.

 Default browser - Firefox.

 Question.

Can a computer game (or employees of this company, remotely) perform hidden actions on the computer on behalf of the administrator?

Answer 1

Hi,

technically computer game may have a hidden function for remote access to user's computer. But in practice no one well-known game has this function due to possible huge reputation loss.

Could it be you've ran these programs before reboot? In this case Windows tries to restore running programs after reboot.

Answer 2

Oh ok I understand now. You’re wondering why these apps for running with you launching them.

Some may be set within services.msc to start automatically. You can them to manual and it may help.

Others may be sat to run in the background.

Click start, settings, privacy. I’d go through these options and see if any are turned on that you’d like off. Specially background apps.

Give this a look and let me know!

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Answer 3

Certainly not. I couldn't do something like that. I don't have that kind of situation. I am a computer user for 18 years.

I know perfectly well, what I can do on a personal computer, and what I can't do.

 It would be very good if Microsoft released the operating system, only for gamers.

 Because most home desktop computers are bought for this.

 I can read the news and check the mail , on  the tablet.

 At this moment, on my computer running a lot of programs-parasites, which I absolutely do not need. But all of them are included in the cost of the operating system.

Answer 4

As I said, these programs work and I do not know who launches them.

Even when I turn them off, through Task Manager, they are turned on again.

Answer 5

Hi Viking!

Are you trying to execute this commands remotely? If so, I think you should look at Windows SysInternals.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/

And more specifically: PSExec

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/d...

Give these a look and let me know!

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