Yeah, when I saw that shit I had a mini heart attack. Opened up process explorer to identify what was running. Found it was Asus and basically said "huh, how are you still here - delete"

yes it is malware

Windows is malware

Asus hacker: I'm in

And again, don't have to deal with this corporate nonsense on my Linux machine. Maybe at work just ask IT to switch your machine to Linux. They likely won't, but if enough people complain and ask, they might actually start thinking about using sane systems