Windows 10: Unusual Activity Missing Activation, Conhost, and SearchIndexer Spikes

Discus and support Unusual Activity Missing Activation, Conhost, and SearchIndexer Spikes in AntiVirus, Firewalls and System Security to solve the problem; I’ve noticed suspicious activity on my unactivated Windows system during that time it happened to have Task Manager open thats why I noticed KMS... Discussion in 'AntiVirus, Firewalls and System Security' started by Ko Stas, Jan 26, 2025.

  1. Ko Stas Win User

    Unusual Activity Missing Activation, Conhost, and SearchIndexer Spikes


    I’ve noticed suspicious activity on my unactivated Windows system during that time it happened to have Task Manager open thats why I noticed KMS Connection Broker appears in Task Manager for a few seconds despite no KMS tools ever being used, the “Activate Windows” watermark disappeared and reappeared after many minutes, conhost.exe runsfor a few seconds without open CLI windows, and SearchIndexer.exe spiked to 26.6% CPUfor a few seconds all occurring simultaneously. Bitdefender quick scan found no threats. How should I approach this situation? Thanks in advance!

    :)
     
    Ko Stas, Jan 26, 2025
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  2. AngHF Win User

    unusual activity from the same IP

    Earlier today I received a mail that there was unusual activity on my microsoft account. I logged and checked the activity page. It should the unusual activity login as well as the current details of the login I just did to check this activity. Both had
    the same IP. I double checked on another site and my IP was indeed that same IP.

    On the unusual activity session the following is listed

    Device/platform : Windows

    Browser/app : Unknown

    Session activity : Unusual activity detected

    To my knowledge the only app that I am sign into on my account is the MS Feedback hub. Could it be this?

    Should I be worried about malware infecting my laptop and that is the cause?
     
    AngHF, Jan 26, 2025
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  3. Definition of "Unusual Activity Detected"

    Hello,

    I recently received an email notification that "Unusual sign-in activity was detected."

    I reviewed the Recent activity page and under the column labeled "Session Type"> "Sesson activity" it was listed with "Unusual activity detected"

    Does this mean that they were successful in signing into my account or were they blocked by a security code or question?

    I know there is another question posted with this same subject title, however, they did not get a helpful answer, so I am reposting.

    Thanks for the assistance!
     
    GrosserKke, Jan 26, 2025
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  4. Unusual Activity Missing Activation, Conhost, and SearchIndexer Spikes

    Microsoft account unusual sign-in activity

    Thank you for the reply. I have answered your questions in bold.

    But I still fail to see why any of the questions/measures apply to my situation when Microsoft's "Review recent activity" log shows no "unusual sign-in activity" whatsoever. There are approximately 20 sessions showing on my activity log currently, and everyone
    single one of them shows them to be: my computer, my IP address, my location, my operating system, my browser; all at times of the day when I was on my computer...

    So unless Microsoft's "Review recent activity" page is inaccurate, where on earth is the "unusual sign-in activity" and why am I getting daily emails alerting me to something, that according to Microsoft's "recent activity" log, does not exist?

    Thanks for your continued help/efforts,

    SR

    03/03/17: Update: and, FTR, I got the email again last night, 8 days in a row now. And once again, there is no "unusual sign-in activity" showing in my "recent activity" whatsoever.

     
    Stever-eno, Jan 26, 2025
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