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BloodyLion

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hello!
I got this problem for about 2 days ago. there is something called mdm.exe. it starts by itself at anytime and gets the GPU and the CPU to high usage. I checked for Viruses and Malware and I am totally clean. Though I had 2 viruses about a week ago and my antivirus detected them by scan. I tried to check google for solutions but no luck. they say disable it from internet explorer. I don't even have internet explorer because I removed it a long time ago.

Any other solution to this problem?
 
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If you install Windows with more than one hard drive connected, it may have placed some hidden files on the hard drive that you did not install Windows on. I would recommend you format the 170GB HDD that you got from your friend and install Windows fresh, with ONLY that one HDD plugged in.


If you install Windows with more than one hard drive connected, it may have placed some hidden files on the hard drive that you did not install Windows on. I would recommend you format the 170GB HDD that you got from your friend and install Windows fresh, with ONLY that one HDD plugged in.
 
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If you install Windows with more than one hard drive connected, it may have placed some hidden files on the hard drive that you did not install Windows on. I would recommend you format the 170GB HDD that you got from your friend and install Windows fresh, with ONLY that one HDD plugged in.
It was suggested to me that if you do this option (to be n the safe side), that you recover the data on the old drive on a separate computer prior to reformatting the drive. This will permanently remove the corrupted version of Windows.
 

I did this and it worked thanks to both of you!
 

I did that it took a while because it was too much data to backup. Then I just formated both HDDs and then installed it on the 170GB. Now I have 1TB to save my thing on if something happens It would be no problem because I wont have stuff in the 170GB. thanks for the help. Kind regards!
 
This is an mining program and runs without your permit and secretly. It uses your gpu process power (~%90) for mining bitcoins or altcoins.
Delete it;
"c:\user\****\AppData\Roaming\microsoft\caches\"

Pls delete from scheduled Tasks too;
"MdmUpdateTaskMachineCore"