Python3 hacking?
I logged into my server this morning to find all the apps with the white screen of death. So decided to reboot, but before that I checked out the task manager and there was row after row of phython. It is installed on my C drive and I don't recall installing python3 for any reason.
Any ideas what might be going on? Can this be a hack?
Attaching your system logs + output of your process table will be a good starting point.
Python is used by many tasks, so likely what's occurred is something has... gone wrong... causing tasks to die before completion, then restart... in large numbers...
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thanks for the advise!
Python is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in other languages. Python supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented, imperative and functional programming or procedural styles. It features a dynamic type system and automatic memory management and has a large and comprehensive set of standard libraries, including NumPy, SciPy, Django, PyQuery, and PyLibrary.
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python can be used in automating tasks. wothout knowing what you have installed and setup, it is impossible to answer.
you could review what starts.
where are these python running from.
you could term them taskkill /fi "imagename eq python3.exe: /f
do you have SQL installed with data analytics components?
what does the system do?