Solved Unidentified startup apps with suspicious names

ussis6nad · Jul 13, 2024

As the title states, among the list of startup programs in Task Manager are these two listings. Googling their names is either unhelpful (you try googling "startup app 1") or yields no results. Properties and Open file location are greyed out for both. They were both also enabled by default with no listed startup impact. Malwarebytes scans say nothing is out of the ordinary. What am I dealing with here?

EDIT: both entries are also listed in Autoruns.

ussis6nad · Jul 13, 2024

As soon as I make the post, a final attempt at solving it myself works. The listings are leftover files from the game Once Human.

MichaelKlq · Jul 15, 2024

Maybe you found a method to delete these files?
it give me discomfort

ussis6nad · Jul 15, 2024

MichaelKlq said:
Maybe you found a method to delete these files?
it give me discomfort

Download Autoruns, then run Autoruns.exe and delete the files on the list. For me, they showed up at the very top. Right-click and delete did it, they disappeared from the Startup Apps list as soon as I did.

maher99 · Jul 15, 2024

ussis6nad said:
As soon as I make the post, a final attempt at solving it myself works. The listings are leftover files from the game Once Human.

i just got the same problem and they were causing my pc to restart on boot. were you able to delete them?

ussis6nad · Jul 15, 2024

maher99 said:
i just got the same problem and they were causing my pc to restart on boot. were you able to delete them?

I had no unexpected restarts on boot. I recommend doing a malware scan and deleting the files like showed above your post, then seeing if the problem persists.

MichaelKlq · Jul 15, 2024

POSSIBLE SOLUTION.
I had to go into regedit:
Equipo\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
and delete the files from there.

Archangelle · Oct 3, 2024

ussis6nad said:
As soon as I make the post, a final attempt at solving it myself works. The listings are leftover files from the game Once Human.

Cloud you please tell me how did you find out it was connected to Once Human?

ussis6nad · Oct 3, 2024

Archangelle said:
Cloud you please tell me how did you find out it was connected to Once Human?

I searched "AF_counter_2139460" (one of the entries in Autoruns) in Google. At the time, the only hit was this Russian website detailing various misconceptions about the game. The 3rd point explains these leftover files. This issue has apparently been raised several times since then, as googling now gives various hits on different forums.

This Steam guide explains how to remove the files.

Archangelle · Oct 3, 2024

ussis6nad said:
I searched "AF_counter_2139460" (one of the entries in Autoruns) in Google. At the time, the only hit was this Russian website detailing various misconceptions about the game. The 3rd point explains these leftover files. This issue has apparently been raised several times since then, as googling now gives various hits on different forums.

This Steam guide explains how to remove the files.

Many thanks <3

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