"system" task eating up 50% of my gpu while doing practically nothing on my laptop

[shut edge]

so i noticed that my laptop's gpu has been using around 50-60% while i was looking at a few pdf's and some music in the back ground and i noticed a task thats been using 40-60% which is called "x770013.dat" so i ended that task but it kept on reopening so i tried to find its source and it was in system32 under a file called "winsvcf" so now idk what to do
i reinstalled the gpu drivers from the geforce app and its still doing the same

should i delete the file?

[fierce compass]

How much RAM do you have thought?

[shut edge]

i have 16gb of ddr5

thats not the problem im saying the app was using 50% of my gpu

for no reason

i ended up deleting it and everything is fine

ill reinstall my windows download as soon as i can cuz this shit has been annoying me

[shut edge]

so it turns out that it indeed was a malware on my pc and the fix is to use norton power eraser and it would find the malware location and delete it

[fierce compass]

Not really a fix. Just a short term solutuon

[modern siren]

norton is malwear

[shut edge]

Well it seemed to have solved my problem

So what do I actually use ?

[elfin bison]

windows defender and just use your brain when you browse or kaspersky / avg

[shut edge]

Windows defender isn't that good

[modern siren]

o boy

[shut edge]

I do plan to get Kaspersky when I travel back

[elfin bison]

it sucks at new threats, but the actions you take shouldn't allow you to be infected in the first place

[shut edge]

True

[elfin bison]

just practice good opsec and use your 'to good to be true' rule, as long as you arent in a torrent group, the free photoshop is probably a btc miner

[shut edge]

For me it's Ae 💀

I had to download it for a course for my uni

I'll try to be careful when downloading SMTH

[shut edge]

Also when I first discovered the problem windows defender didn't help

It's a relatively new problem which only started to float on Reddit a month ago

[elfin bison]

you should install process explorer if you havent

and if you want to commit to pirating software you should join a community for it, they are op

[shut edge]

I might sound stupid but what's that

[elfin bison]

no not at all, it should really come default with windows by now, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

if there is a suspicious process you can investigate it on here a whollllee lot easier

[shut edge]

Oh nice thanks

[elfin bison]

if you do want to get a paid antivirus, kaspersky is real good and performs well against new threats

[shut edge]

My dad already has a family subscription I just to log in his account but I forgot

[elfin bison]

ohh thats very very useful

enjoy it

[shut edge]

Also I live abroad so it's annoying to get anything rn

[shut edge]

Thanks

[elfin bison]

do you live in the US? pretty sure a ban just got slapped out on kaspersky xddd