I can vouch for this one too, amd x2 athlon, win7 64, three of my four gigs of ram get eaten even with the launcher turned off. I cant free the memory without a reboot.

I fixed it for my self now. some malware got added within patch(red sherrif and about 4 or 5 other malicious chromium addons[that tool sayed it is malware so it deleted it] etc) or so. detected. destroyed. runs fine now.
but some verry rare leaks are left.
Not that extreme as it was before gotting rid of this stuff(chromium/awesomium addons).
Scanned with advanced systemcare 7 from iobit.
It is strange that souch stuff can get on your hd with an patch -_-

And it is the 1st game in years which is making this kind of trouble.

Eso did not put malware on your computer, not sure where you've got that from. I've scanned my computer with both AVG 2014 internet security and Malware Bytes pro and it comes up clean. The 2 things you mentioned are not malware! If there were malware in patch then don't you think more people would have reported it? If you did have some malware from somewhere else then I would be more concerned about my account details!

Atreidus wrote: »

(chromium/awesomium addons).

ESO uses Awesomium and Chromium in the Help and Debug screens. Without it you cannot send bug reports back to home base, or report other players. There may be other implementations for it in the game as well.

It was probably a false positive. If a program uses a compression algorithm that a AV isn't able to decompress then it will report it has a virus or PUP (Possible unwanted program) but that doesn't mean it is a virus or malware, they can also report them has generic which is usually nothing to worry about. Norton used to be the best but its become complete bloatware and I wouldn't trust it at all to be quite honest, spybot used to be very good but these programs rely on fear to get you to part with your cash so they have a interest in reporting everything as a unwanted program.

In my 33 years of computing, I've seen all sorts of thing but I have never once suffered any form of serious attack but have had lots of PUPs but in 99% of cases, they are nothing serious. Do you really think that Zenimax would bundle any form of software without the End users knowledge? I know that in the UK, if they install software without prior knowledge by the end user, its an offense, not sure about the states though.

Your AV and malware program is probably detecting a in house compression algorithm to prevent decompilation by the average user to stop hacking but these days most hacking is done via memory and not by infecting your EXE files.

I've heard recently of some malware that you can get via visiting certain dodgy sites where it drops a small packet on a unsuspecting computers which hijacks your computer and downloads a bit coin miner onto your computer which sits there not causing any real noticeable harm to the user but mines bitcoins for the crooks.

What you should have done is kept the files, handy if still in your quarantine, and uploaded them to VirusTotal (Google it). It will scan them with every AV in existence and give you a report, its very handy utility and my rule of thumb is if most of the top AVs like kaspersky, AVG, bitdefender don't show it has a virus or malware then it probably isnt, if it says Generic in the description then its probably the programs heuristics that trying to predict if its harmful but like I say, unknown compression usually triggers that.

At the end of the day. Virus and malware programs are only has good as their definitions and not one of them can protect you one bit from Zero Day viruses and those are the ones you should most fear. Best advice I can give is use common sense with what sites you visit, use a well configured browser with something like a Adblocker, flash blockers, popup blocker. Use something like WoT or McAfee site advisor as they give ratings of if a site is safe but it'd not perfect. I use Ghostery to block most advertisers and other stuff which is a excellent browser add on.

Edit: Here's an articles that tests AVs and malware programs. I've linked to page 5 where you can find Spybot which used to be very good but since it went commercial, prolly bought up by a large corporate, has gone awful! I haven't used it for over a year apart from version 1.3 that's still lingering on my computer, It scores 1 out of 5 here and Malware bytes free gets 4 out of 5. Don't trust spybot! They want you credit card, hope you haven't paid for it

Here's the article but there's many that all tell a similar story.

Page 5 of it but read through them.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372443,00.asp

awesomnium process use a lot of PC resources but it is gone when you close launcher in background .

Kaspersky PURE 3.0 never gave me anything about malware so iv no idea where you get it from .

There is a small leak still which can be sorted out with memory cleaner tool(tested, it works)

http://www.koshyjohn.com/software/memclean/

Hope it will help you out.

Loxy37 wrote: »

Basically he won't listen to reason so I give up with this thread. Good luck with Spybot lol.

Basicaly you dint got an clue.

And who wrote about awesomium as sourche?

I am an "pro" in internet dangers and i know if something is smelling fishy.
Cause you failed at down troling my serious thread i am stupid now?
Shows how danger blind some users are.
http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193414/Think_twice_before_installing_Chrome_extensions
And i didnt installed an extension ever.
So which excuse now?

/edit: small leak.. i have to laugh or cry about this? It is again an huge leak.

Thanks. I already did wrote 2 or 3 times that i am sure it is no Virus etc.
It was just an junk addon(and i didnt installed it) for chromium or similar engines. This addon was gone and it is all fine. Ok. The game played stupid for some days(gave me random server kicks) . But that is an fair price. The leaks are back. Even without this strange stuff now.

yeah. my fault -_-. I should had knewn it better. Here since beta. What shall i expect? Pro crew? i´ve got an "pro" crew . to stay at my phrase .