First: "Did I accidentally install a crypto miner named after a periodic element?" Second: "Is this a legitimate Windows component I’ve never noticed before?"
Decompressing technetium.exe : Malware, Misnomer, or Microsoft Ghost? technetium.exe
If you’ve been digging through your Task Manager recently and spotted a process named technetium.exe chewing up 12% of your CPU, you probably had the same two thoughts I did. First: "Did I accidentally install a crypto miner
From a malware author’s perspective, naming your virus technetium.exe is actually pretty clever. It sounds technical, pseudo-scientific, and just boring enough to ignore. It’s not as obvious as virus.exe or as suspicious as windows_update_fake.exe . technetium.exe