Chromium virus?

[Kyuubixchidori]

hi everyone. so my issue is that there is Chromium always running. I never installed it, and the second i close it in task manager, it just reopens. now this is a issue, beause my i5-3570K is sitting at 40-45% usage on idle. and that's not okay. malwarebytes and avast are both showing up nothing. any ideas?

 

its on win 8.1

 

thanks for any help!

[LabRat]

start/run/type msconfig in the box... look under start up and services for any signs of that program. deselect and save....... you can filter (check in box ) at bottom of services. restart

 

also look in add/remove.

 

edit: are you running malwarebytes? it may be part of that.

[William12h]

Chromium is Google Chrome. (Or a version of it at least) 

You can do what @LabRat said but also in Chrome/Chromium Browser you can Deselect Continue Running In Background

hi everyone. so my issue is that there is Chromium always running. I never installed it, and the second i close it in task manager, it just reopens. now this is a issue, beause my i5-3570K is sitting at 40-45% usage on idle. and that's not okay. malwarebytes and avast are both showing up nothing. any ideas?

 

its on win 8.1

 

thanks for any help!

[LabRat]

I was thinking of Chameleon ( malwarebytes )..........

 

  the google chrome thing.......... if you express install software instead of doing a custom install, you installed it............ miss that video by Linus on bloatware. you should watch it. Lots of apps have extra added goodies attached to them. Not only are you installing "malwarebytes" but also the 2 google apps associated in the install........  chrome blows. good one to delete.

[legoset0]

I Believe that Chrome always has background processes running. You technically did install it as it would have been included with another program and you agreed to install it (it is normally included with adobe programs).

[WinNut]

Chromium AFAIK is a version of Chrome for Linux.

[Kyuubixchidori]

Chromium AFAIK is a version of Chrome for Linux.

right. so why would it be randomlly installed on a windows 8.1 machine and refuses to closed? found it in a randomly named folder. was just a stream of letters. couldnt delete beacause it was running, and couldnt stop it from running because it would just start back up. so always using 40% of cpu sucked.

 

my solution was to randomly name the files that it was using, and now it wont start. so temporary solution I guess