I tried, it came back somehow and I can't tell from where. I made this thread because I thought this problem must have many people. If this is not the case, maybe it is actual malware. Made an offline scan that didn't found anything.
It seems related to Bing, so no. I had scanned that too and was no virus according to virus total. So my guess is because I block it in the firewall and never run Edge it behaves nuts...
TBH I was confused firstly. Thought it was malware. But now it seems it's like own adware or something. I am running customized w10 enterprise and I don't have it.
This is not a wise thing to do. It is necessary to look for its cause and its originator, i.e. its owner. It is not associated with Bing and is also not a Microsoft file. So, figure out who or what brought it to your computer or brings it regularly now. I have quite a few computers and none of them have and never have had such a file. But if you just deny and don't look for a reason, it's just hiding under the sand. Behavior based on the principle - if I can't see, there is no problem. But what it is, I can't tell you, because I've never had such a thing, and everything you can find on the Internet is probably what you already know, and it's not right, and it's not a solution. Since you have this problem, and you also have this file, you are the one who can find out its nature and cause. Please do it! Otherways it stay there and may even does something there, but nobody knows, what it does. But we know - it shouldn be there.
It's hard to decide which one is more dangerous. Obviously no same minded person installs the full bloat thing. But clearly someone here did differently.
Edge and related things usually create a scheduled task each time they are launched (so deleting the task is futile), probably it's part of that process. If you have a decent amout of RAM the best way is, install the ImDiskTk ramdisk. You wiil get a dinamic ramdisk (it uses only the space needed by the files contained in it, and the RAM is returned when you delete them). Change the system and user TEMP & TMP variable to point to the RAMDISK (R: by default), also point there the browser(s) caches. For firefox and alike use the about:config page For chromium based ones use the command lineswitch for example Vivaldi.exe --disk-cache-dir="R:\VivaldiCache" You will get faster startup of your browsers, faster setup when you install new applications, less wasted storage, less SSD wearing, and all the files will be gone each time you reboot the system. And the whole thing is just 500KB (as usual, best wines come in small barrels )
@Bob.D What windows 10 version do you run and did you have enabled "Receive updates for other Microsoft products"? I want to figure out why some have got it and other's not. Depends where you mean. ATM I am at work. The IT dept. here provides own wu service (WSUS) and also deployed own install media via network.Those have already anything needed inside such as drivers and anything that's bloat outside. At home MSMG toolkit.
I run Pro and have that option enabled although I don't have office or any other ms program installed and have uninstalled everything that is uninstallable in programs/startmenu etc. I will have a closer look, thanks.
Here at work we use Edge browser as default. Anyway no of the services / programes are installed here. Those are related to Bing, not to Edge, I suppose. It seems people who have it disabled "Receive updates for other Microsoft products" won't get that automatically installed. It's not needed to be enabled for Office either, since Office has its own update service implemented. If that Bing 2.0 update appears it appears as optional update which can be left uninstalled.
Thank you. I have disabled this stuff with shutup10 and by hand if possible so my WinPro was kinda clean before this has happened.
Some of the options (and telemetry) are reset on each montly update. And BTW I thinkt they avoid tho download new applications, not running something you already downloaded
I never use consumer versions. (home / pro) Since w10 I always do the same stuff. I customize the install wim a bit. (Remove unwanted apps only) Use rufus and the offered windows experience options to create my bootstick. Install the OS and apply 3 GPO's -"Allow Telemetry" to "Enabled" with "0 - Security [Enterprise Only]" -disable the SmartScreen filter, select the radio option “Disabled.” -Set Turn off Windows Network Connectivity Status Indicator active tests to Enabled. That's the basics and actuality enough for me. I am running a pi-hole with some additional manual blockings.
It seems it is gone, had no problem for many days now. I deleted all autostarts of it, configured every aspect of edge in its options, blocked Edge webviewruntime, all good now.
Just you can't see it doesn't mean it's gone. As long as you don't find and remove the cause, nothing will go away.