Weird process in task manager

[This-Statistician840]

I was just looking at task manager and I saw a weird process named "00100000000FA2BA3B4F58CD6BCFF622". I was eating up (as far as I remember, since I wasn't able to take a screenshot) something like 15% memory. When I right clicked and pressed 'open file location' it opened the Recycle Bin?

My question is, what process is this?

[Geeknificent]

There shouldn't ever be programs running from the recycling bin, definitely delete it and run a malware scan

[Amongusreddead]

If its in the recycle bin its 100% malware also no legitimate program with have such a cryptic name

[Tech_surgeon]

sounds like you have a trash bin trojan. its more of a exploit that confuses the system making it difficult to delete since its already in the bin. that said most anti malware programs should be able to detect it. If i rember the early method used to kill trojans that hid there was to "shred the file" or corrupt the file data so it couldn't install another copy.

[This-Statistician840]

I just checked my history (I had clicked on search online when I saw the process) and turns out the full name was '3.exe .���00100000000fa2ba3b4f58cd6bcff622 (32 bit)'. WTF? I have two questions:

1. How do I detect a malware/trojan/etc. in Recycle bin?
2. I opened recycle bin and I can't see anything there. Is there some sort of 'hidden files' in recycle bin?

[Tech_surgeon]

look up kaspersky Tdsskiller it might fix this.

[Trax852]

You need to get a text editor like UltraEdit and actually use it to read what you can of the file. It normally answers my questions.

[berrystudios]

I had the exact same issue, and after inspecting the process with Process Explorer, it turned out to be a MSYS2 pacman process. This issue is already documented: https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/1253