Question Weird "018" Entries in Hijackthis Log

[brenski]

I'm curious as to what these creatures are. I'm 100% confident they haven't always been there. I'm wondering if they're connected in some way to MS Edge? If I remove them from Hijackthis using the "fix" option and then click refresh they reappear.

O18 - Protocol: tbauth - {14654CA6-5711-491D-B89A-58E571679951} - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\tbauth.dll
O18 - Protocol: windows.tbauth - {14654CA6-5711-491D-B89A-58E571679951} - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\tbauth.dll

O18 - Protocol: about - {3050F406-98B5-11CF-BB82-00AA00BDCE0B} - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\mshtml.dll
O18 - Protocol: dvd - {12D51199-0DB5-46FE-A120-47A3D7D937CC} - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvidctl.dll
O18 - Protocol: its - {9D148291-B9C8-11D0-A4CC-0000F80149F6} - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\itss.dll
O18 - Protocol: mhtml - {05300401-BCBC-11D0-85E3-00C04FD85AB4} - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\inetcomm.dll
O18 - Protocol hijack: mk - A0;IMKTMTBQAWXZSGUEPO?_[CQQDNCNHDXVV!FWK
O18 - Protocol: ms-its - {9D148291-B9C8-11D0-A4CC-0000F80149F6} - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\itss.dll
O18 - Protocol hijack: tv - {CBD30858-AF45-11D2-B6D6-00C04FBBDE6E}
O18 - Protocol: vbscript - {3050F3B2-98B5-11CF-BB82-00AA00BDCE0B} - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\mshtml.dll

I'm not concerned about the first two entries, but can anyone explain what each are, and why they keep reappearing?

thanks

 

[Ralston18]

Google the file names.

For example I searched itss.dll

Result:

https://www.processlibrary.com/en/directory/files/itss/23346/

Hopefully the other files can be explained as well.

 

[brenski]

thanks, yes, I found that too. but my question was really about why these "events" are showing now - I'm sure they never did