Anyone have any idea what these odd tasks shown highlighted in the image below, are and where they have come from?

More importantly - how to get rid of them (assuming they are up to no good). They do not appear in the Task Scheduler list in the LHS pane; nor do they appear as a task in and subfolder of c:\windows\system32\tasks.

Thanks
NigelS

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I would first check to see what tasks you have running and see if there is anything odd there, you may have to click on "View" and then click on "show hidden tasks"

You can also search the Registry for that particular entry. It should/may be listed in there somewhere with the name of the executable it's calling.