The only thing I installed on my machine on the 11th was an automatic update to Adobe Flash.
At least it's a Delayed Start so it doesn't slow down my boot. Running services.msc from Start | Run tells me that this runs as an Automatic Service. Are they or one of the companies that uses them going to update this client and cert soon? I wonder if someone needs to tell Akamai that their freshly installed service that just (kinda, a little) snuck on my system has a digital certificate that expires in 5 weeks. Looks like this was recently installed automatically by something, perhaps Flash or Adobe Acrobat. Well, they have a legitimate digital signature, interestingly they signed this on the 11th of November. Kind of the first large Content Distribution Network or CDN.Īm I sure it's them and not someone evil trying to fake me out? Right click on netsession_win.exe, then Properties. They are a download accelerator used by lots of companies. Hm, that dropped me into C:\Users\scottha\AppData\Local\Akamai. This little tip is often enough to jog your memory and go, "Oh, THAT." You can always right click on suspicious processes and click Open File Location. Ok, what's this? It's the Akamai Net Session Interface. Recently I was checking out the Task Manager (right click on the clock, and select Task Manager or press Ctrl-Alt-Del and click Task Manager) and noticed TWO copies of "netsession_win.exe" running with a peak memory working set of about 25 megs. I know my system backwards and forwards and I do not like noticing stuff running in the background that I don't recognize.