task manager shows strange user name

[Guest]

hi.. today when i opened task manager for doing end task i saw that in processes tab username for processes are like ascii chars of square signs .. pc was hanged for few min and then back to noraml with normal taskmanager. i giving screen shot here is this viral activity???



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[expertno.1]

1) does this screen appears now also everytime ?

2) if not then it was due to hanging

 

[Vishal Gupta]

I think it was due to some service failure.
Sometimes UNKNOWN user is displayed when some service stops working.
So no need to worry.

 

[Guest]

it was only for while when it hanged . now its normal

 

[expertno.1]

yes then lock this post

problem solved

 

[Guest]

yes then lock this post

problem solved

oh great man..

i mean that it is normal after hang it happened again .. and it happens when i m online

 

[anandk]

perhaps a malaware infection !?
no harm in running your anti-virus and anti-spy in safe mode.
u can try avast and ms anti-spy from *www.filehippo.com/