Posted March 5, 201410 yr Today I noticed that my fan would kick when I leave my Laptop idle. Laptop is a Lenovo y410p running on windows 8.1. After some research, I downloaded Process Explorer to see what program was causing this. exactly after 30 seconds of inactivity, two processes of conhost.exe and bmx.exe would come up, and the fan kick in, which means it was taking a lot cpu usage. I know conhost.exe is a normal windows legit program, but I couldn't find info about bmx.exe. I tracked down bmx.exe and it creates itself in my temp folder, even if I delete it, it will appear again. As you can see, when I highlight it, it shows a very strange command line, something like givemecoins about some user named eric smith? I did a little research and givemecoins seems to be a webpage or a program for a game called minecraft, which i've never played before or even installed. Also, you can see that conhost.exe is behind the process of bmx.exe. As I'm writing this, I installed Ad-Aware and it stops and move to Quarantine bmx.exe, but this means that is still there. Any thoughts on how can I get rid of this? PS. Sorry for my bad english, not my native language. Continue reading...
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