What is this creepy "UnistackSvcGroup" with a number of processes and WHY IS IT LOGGED IN TO A MYSTERY ACCOUNT?!

Question

Cleaning up and tweaking my window 10 box I stumbled upon MessagingService_44867, and then a number of other services (whose descriptions were uncomfortably vague) with _44867 at the end and all of them are initialized through svchost.exe so I cant remove these random unexplained un requested files/spyware/bloatware/plain old BS. 

• For the MessagingService_44867 the properties provide: C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k UnistackSvcGroup

Now, I was the first kid I knew to have a computer and have been in this game a while. So I am used to this absolutely rational concept which is now alien to modern thinking that *if you BUY something, it is YOURS. If it is yours, it is under YOUR control and you can delete the entire OS if you <removed> want to!* - so this era of enforced suspicious software makes me furious! If I pay for something no one has any right to control what I do. Like a hammer which only permits you to use it with a certain brand of nails would make people very angry but when applied to computing people lie down and accept it for some reason I will never, ever, understand.

But, my questions are:

1. What the H*** is UnistackSvcGroup
2. Why are these services appended with this mysterious number? UID for my computer?
3. Why the H*** cant I stop or delete these should I, the owner, choose to?
4. This one is really creepy to me- why do these have an unnamed account and a password unavailable to me. Does some person or entity have a backdoor into my computer? Why does it have a password, seriously, ***?

Can I please be told what this is if anyone knows, and how to get rid of this junk as the only info I can find about it involves text messaging (from my laptop? not interested) and other bundled communications. But again- why is there a password for MY communications? Arg - please what is this? Can I make it go away?

I'm a data analyst and programmer with hardware knowledge so I don't need it simplified, but I do need to understand WHAT these are, DO I need them, if not - HOW to get rid of them, or contact the people who forced their spyware/bloatware on me.

Thanks guys, sorry for being so bellicose, it has been a frustrating morning trying to clear my compu of the plethora of commercial advertising / data mining / behaviour analysis tools which are so brazenly placed on our hard drives while everyone focuses on their hair in Fortnite while their IRL rights fade away...…..

Answer 1

Hi Aaron,

UnistackSvcGroup is belong to app store services. it seem your app store is set to automatically update

This thread is worth a read, see Tom Transparente's answer . . .

https://superuser.com/questions/950225/how-to-d...

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Answer 2

Hi Aaron,

UnistackSvcGroup is belong to app store services. it seem your app store is set to automatically update

This thread is worth a read, see Tom Transparente's answer . . .

https://superuser.com/questions/950225/how-to-d...

________________________________________________________

Standard Disclaimer: This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it.

Thanks Dave, that is a very clear and logical answer! 

It figures that this would be associated with the app-store, hence the persistence and the numerical suffix could be an advertising ID or user ID - type indicator and the svchost.exe path.

Warning-  ranting below:

<rant>

Still irks me, I use my computer for... (this is going to sound weird, but) computing...

Not for purchasing apps or playing candy crush.

If I need an actual application, I will either write it or find the actual application online coded by people who are focused on the application's functionality, not submit to MS's infantilization-based "app"-store full of half-baked 'apps'. ( If someone is too lazy to say the full word "application", I don't trust them to put in the effort required to make a good product!) 

I want an OS which will run SPSS, Visual Studio, virtualizations and SQL servers well! 

If I wanted a toy I would have gone to the toy store, not the computer store! ARG ok, rant done...

</rant>

Anyways, thanks for opening the pod bay doors Dave!

[EDIT: I really wish more of the major application developers would focus on *nix-based systems. I love how *nix is no nonsense, just run the freaking code, no ads for sex-dolls or mystery services and backdoors. But someone has to make some good object oriented data analysis tools starting with a GUI database like Access]