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I have a program called "Program" in my startup settings

Anonymous
2020-10-19T22:22:45+00:00

When I went to startup settings to stop some programs to start when I turn on my laptop I saw this

Tried to look into the task manager for some process called "program" but there is no one

Could a malicious software?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-19T22:32:20+00:00

    Hi and thanks for reaching out. My name is William. <removed> I'll be happy to help you out today.

    Open the Task Manager > go to the Startup tab > and look for a similar entry named "program" to ascertain details about it. Normally, you can disable it from there or you can manually delete the entry from the Windows registry. It can typically be found in one of these paths:

    Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

    Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

    Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

    Note, I have seen this before, and usually it is related to Microsoft Teams installer.

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