Discord? Stealing your data?
It's more likely than you think
Discord is a voice, video, and text communication service to talk and hang out with your friends and communities.
Discord? Stealing your data?
It's more likely than you think
A lot of viruses and other malware will disguise themselves as legitimate processes. Download malwarebytes and run it to see if it picks up anything.
Yeah, it didn't detect anything. When I click "Open file location" it takes me to the legit Discord.exe it's also not detected on VirusTotal and it's signed by Discord the company. After multiple clean reinstalls (uninstalling + deleting all Discord files from %appdata% local and roaming) it still seems to be happening. Like... there is no way this isn't some rare Discord bug or malware. And I would really like to know which one it is, haha. After talking with some friends and family - NONE of them have this thing happening on their machines.
Discord has been consistently getting more and more unbearable.
You could try using Discord in a Browser.
I don't actually mind the CPU usage, I'm just concerned I got malware.
Other than Discord?
Not sure what you mean by "Other than Discord?".
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.
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.
I think Vencord helps keep discord more tame and sandboxed.
I'll take a look, thank you!
As you've ruled out it not being malware disguising as Discord, I recommend doing a clean installation (steps here) to see if it persists. If it does, maybe it would be good to file a bug report. Discord is supposed to fully close when you close it!
I've done a full reinstall (even deleted every single discord-related file I could find in multiple locations) and it's still happening.
And that's including the files mentioned in the guide?
Perhaps try the Public Test Build or Canary version (links) to see if it persists. It sounds more like your OS has an issue closing down programs, or more specifically, Discord.