sysmon keeps popping up

[kilincgabriela89]

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ok so, recently this file called sysmon keeps popping up and it's eating around 40% of my CPU. it's actually annoying and i don't know how to get rid of it, as every time i end it from the task manager, it simply returns after a while. i think it's some sort of checker thing, i'm honestly not even 1% sure of it, so i require help.

 

[rscheetah30]

[Moderator note: moved post to Systems.]

ok so, recently this file called sysmon keeps popping up and it's eating around 40% of my CPU. it's actually annoying and i don't know how to get rid of it, as every time i end it from the task manager, it simply returns after a while. i think it's some sort of checker thing, i'm honestly not even 1% sure of it, so i require help.

System Monitor (Sysmon) is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows event log. It provides detailed information about process creations, network connections, and changes to file creation time.

Check out this Microsoft page on how to uninstall it:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon

 

[kilincgabriela89]

[Moderator note: moved post to Systems.]

ok so, recently this file called sysmon keeps popping up and it's eating around 40% of my CPU. it's actually annoying and i don't know how to get rid of it, as every time i end it from the task manager, it simply returns after a while. i think it's some sort of checker thing, i'm honestly not even 1% sure of it, so i require help.

System Monitor (Sysmon) is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows event log. It provides detailed information about process creations, network connections, and changes to file creation time.

Check out this Microsoft page on how to uninstall it:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon

Problem is, i did not install it myself, nor did any other application. So i can't just uninstall it.

 

[rscheetah30]

Sysmon is merely a monitoring service, however it may have been installed on your system, you can try to uninstall it using Windows Install/Uninstall tool. Try to find it there and uninstall it. If you can't find it there, then run this: "services.msc"(without the quotes) and then try to find a service called 'sysmon' or System Monitor Service or something similar then disable it.

 

[kilincgabriela89]

Sysmon is merely a monitoring service, however it may have been installed on your system, you can try to uninstall it using Windows Install/Uninstall tool. Try to find it there and uninstall it. If you can't find it there, then run this: "services.msc"(without the quotes) and then try to find a service called 'sysmon' or System Monitor Service or something similar then disable it.

I've tried searching for it in services, but to no avail. Trying to uninstall it didn't work either, since when i try to install it with sysmon64.exe (so that the installer sees it and gives me the choice to either repair or uninstall), the installer simply opens for less than a second, then closes. I've tried uninstalling it with CMD too, but that didn't work either.

 

[rscheetah30]

Sysmon is merely a monitoring service, however it may have been installed on your system, you can try to uninstall it using Windows Install/Uninstall tool. Try to find it there and uninstall it. If you can't find it there, then run this: "services.msc"(without the quotes) and then try to find a service called 'sysmon' or System Monitor Service or something similar then disable it.

I've tried searching for it in services, but to no avail. Trying to uninstall it didn't work either, since when i try to install it with sysmon64.exe (so that the installer sees it and gives me the choice to either repair or uninstall), the installer simply opens for less than a second, then closes. I've tried uninstalling it with CMD too, but that didn't work either.

Try searching for this issue on Google, there must be other people having the same issue. By the way, is your Windows 32 or 64 bit? Maybe you picked the wrong version of sysmon.exe to install.

 

[kilincgabriela89]

Sysmon is merely a monitoring service, however it may have been installed on your system, you can try to uninstall it using Windows Install/Uninstall tool. Try to find it there and uninstall it. If you can't find it there, then run this: "services.msc"(without the quotes) and then try to find a service called 'sysmon' or System Monitor Service or something similar then disable it.

I've tried searching for it in services, but to no avail. Trying to uninstall it didn't work either, since when i try to install it with sysmon64.exe (so that the installer sees it and gives me the choice to either repair or uninstall), the installer simply opens for less than a second, then closes. I've tried uninstalling it with CMD too, but that didn't work either.

Try searching for this issue on Google, there must be other people having the same issue. By the way, is your Windows 32 or 64 bit? Maybe you picked the wrong version of sysmon.exe to install.

Yeah i've been searching for the last couple of days, but to no avail again. Also, it's 64 bit. I tried both of them anyway so it doesn't matter.

 

[rscheetah30]

Have you tried a restore point? Try to go back to the earliest restore point available to when this issue wasn't happening. If there are no restore points available the only solution I can think of is to either refresh your Windows installation(Windows 10) or reinstalling it altogether.

 

[rscheetah30]

Also try doing a virus/malware sweep with Malwarebytes, it's the best free virus/malware software available.

 

[kilincgabriela89]

Also try doing a virus/malware sweep with Malwarebytes, it's the best free virus/malware software available.

I already have the pro version of AVG installed, and it didn't do anything whatsoever. As for the reinstall, i would but i have so much stuff on my pc right now, that i wouldn't really want to reinstall windows lol