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When I start my pc, (Nobara 43) Memory is up to 70% usage. I dual boot, but use Windows like 5% of the time. I have a Swap partition (64gb), but it shows 0b usage. Is it safe to kill the windows process? Can anyone shed some light into whats going on? I was starting to think this is sketchy lol

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[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

find will catch more if you wildcard the name with "windows", but that's a moot point: we don't have enough info to jump to "malware" conclusions here.

Looking for malware by hunting for the name in a procid list won't usually get far, you'd be better to netstat to see what various processes are listening or phoning home to confirm suspicions of malware.