this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2024
24 points (100.0% liked)

Discord

490 readers
4 users here now

Discord is a voice, video, and text communication service to talk and hang out with your friends and communities.

Discord client

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

A while ago I've noticed Discord using 8-10% of my CPU every time I open Task Manager. This doesn't really sound weird... Until you realize this is when my Discord client is NOT running (AKA after I fully exit out of it so it's not even present in the tray area on the right side of the taskbar). From what I can tell, it's using about 400MB of memory, no disk or network and about 8% of CPU (I have 6 cores/12 threads and that 8-10% seems to be distributed among all of them). It's possible it uses disk and network in short bursts after a long period of inactivity, but I havent spotted it doing that so far). If I were to kill Discord.exe in the task manager - it would go away and not come back until I restarted my computer. At first, I didn't think much of it - I thought maybe it's doing some background update or something, but it is constant, it doesn't go away unless I kill it. When I run Discord - another Discord entry appears in the task manager - the suspicious one seems unaffected. Both entries take me to the same file when I click "Open file location". The file seems normal and signed by Discord. What is going on here? Do you guys also have this going on or is it just me? I'm getting some really sus vibes ngl. I suspect a discord bug/unoptimized code, 3rd party malware or Discord itself secretly doing some malicious thing.

UPDATE: Multiple clean reinstalls haven't helped.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I use https://github.com/fangfufu/Linux-Fake-Background-Webcam for blurring my background in apps that don't support it. It shows how many connected clients there are. I noticed the count goes up/down every second when discord starts. I've been meaning to dig in more, but my hypothesis is that its taking a picture every second. It stopped when discord exited. This is unverified, so take with a grain of salt. It could of just been a coincident.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, that's def sus, but could also be normal. I'm on Win10 spyware OS tho since I play a lot of games that just don't work on Linux atm and maybe never will (AC). I'd def be an Arch full timer if I wasn't addicted to games with malwareish anti-cheats.