Launcher.exe — Isthg

There was a task named MicrosoftEdgeUpdateTaskMachine (sneaky), but when I opened its properties, the action was not updating Edge. The action was:

[Player] Name=User PlayTime=0 LastMap=The_Hinterland Weapon_Unlocked=FALSE Gamma_Correction=1.0 My heart stopped. This wasn't malware. This wasn't a virus.

Even though the game was gone, the launcher was still waiting. Every morning, at 8:00 AM, it tried to connect to a dead authentication server in Riga to check for updates to a game that didn't exist anymore. ISTHG Launcher.exe

I did what any rational person would do. I Googled it.

For me, that process was ISTHG Launcher.exe . This wasn't a virus

Forty-five second boot time. Open Task Manager. ISTHG Launcher.exe is back. The task had recreated itself.

The trigger? At system startup, repeat every hour, run indefinitely. I did what any rational person would do

I disabled the task. I deleted the XML file from Windows\System32\Tasks . I deleted the ISTHG folder again. I ran sfc /scannow for good measure.