Found user "fbwuser", is it safe to remove?

[gabriolinari]

hi there

I was checking some stuff on my pc and for a chance I went to the "users" folder and then I found this "fbwuser"...

some other user said it could be this HotSpot shield, but I never installed it. what I did install recently was Junos Pulse that is a VPN client that I use at work, now uninstalled from the system though..

more info here New account on windows 7 I didn't make.? - Yahoo! Answers

is it safe to delete that user? recently scanned pc for malware with Malwarebytes and said all OK.

thanks
Gab

 

[Ztruker]

Do you see HotSpot shield in Control Panel, Programs and Features?

 

[gabriolinari]

Do you see HotSpot shield in Control Panel, Programs and Features?

nope, there's no such thing, actually I deleted the user yesterday and all seems normal now anyway. ran a scan for malware and nothing came up.. bit of a mistery... maybe one of the win updates did that?

thanks
Gab

 

[x BlueRobot]

It's not a result of Windows Update. I have no such User account on my system.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=127223.0

 

[gabriolinari]

It's not a result of Windows Update. I have no such User account on my system.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=127223.0

mistery, only thing I can think of is that I have installed Juniper Pulse (VPN) for my work, but I removed that. I don't have such program for the Hotspot thingie....

thanks anyway
Gab

 

[x BlueRobot]

Both programs are VPNs, therefore both programs may rely on similar code, thus creating the user fbwuser folder? Just a hypothesis.

 

[gabriolinari]

possible my friend, at this point im not surprised of anything

 

[x BlueRobot]

It's not causing problems, so I wouldn't worry about it