[SOLVED] Visual basic / .NET Framework Memory leak?

[hasansyrf]

Hello everyone, I have a slight problem with vbc.exe running in the background. There are hundreds of these processes running and taking up 100% of my RAM and eventually crashing the system and I have to hard reboot my PC because of it multiple times a day. Is this some kind of bug or a malware that I'm not aware of? What's the solution for this problem?

The picture that I attached is about 2 hours after I turned on my PC and it already taking up about 30% of my 16 GB RAM, this will eventually go up to 95% memory and then freeze my PC and there's nothing I can do after that except a hard restart.

 

[Colif]

right click start button

choose powershell (admin)

copy/paste this command into window:

Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth

and press enter

Then type SFC /scannow

and press enter

Restart PC if SFC fixes any files as some fixes require a restart to be implemented

First command repairs the files SFC uses to clean files, and SFC fixes system files

SFC = System File Checker. First command runs DISM - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/what-is-dism?view=windows-11

Have you scanned for malware? Used Malwarebytes or Hitman Pro? (just get the trials)

memory leaks normally drivers. So be strange for it to be part of windows.

 

[hasansyrf]

Tried the first method, didn't work, but I've downloaded and scanned my PC with, Hitman Pro, seems to work because I haven't seen vbc.exe running in the background. I forgot to screenshot the scan result, but it has something to do with ads in Internet Explorer 11 that's causing the vbc.exe to run that many instances (even though I never use IE). Thanks for the help!