Urgent!! Cursor Jumping Around Crazily-Possible Malware?

[Dimitris B]

Greetings all,
This morning I opened my Windows 7 PC, but the cursor was maniacally jumping around, clicking things around. I even tried to physically unplug the mouse but no luck, i immediately assumed i had malware. I managed to open the Task Manager to trace the malware, the only suspicious thing i found is "brs.exe" with description "brs" but i couldn't go on and kill it since the cursor was jumping around like crazy. I hard reset the PC, when i rebooted the cursor was normal, but the brs.exe suspicious process was still there. I killed it, and found its origin in C:\Program Files (x86)\Cyberlink\Shared Files, a folder next to my installation of PowerDVD 9. I later searched things about brs.exe and I found that it's a Blu-Ray service or something like that, which doesnt make sense running like this because, for one I don't have any Blu-Ray capable Hardware, and PowerDVD was never running, and the location of the brs.exe is suspicious and so is the description, and also i've NEVER seen this file before running in the top 5 in Task Manager. It was consuming 900KB of Memory and zero CPU Cycles. Worst part is that it might not even by related to what happened, since i scanned it with VirusTotal and it was considered harmless and safe. I'll do a AV scan, but if u guys know what's happening, let me know!

 

[Dimitris B]

Quick Update...

I did a scan with Malwarebytes, the only thing it flagged is μTorrent, like most AVs do since they assume I use it for illegal software (Malwarebytes explicitly tries to flag any P2P Software). Nothing else out of the ordinary was detected. Worst part, I dont know if that's good or bad. Now, there are 2 possible things that are happening:
-The Malware (if any) was not detected by Malwarebytes (Weird since definitions have been updated)
-A Windows Glitch (Also Weird and unlikely, I've never ever seen this before.)

 

[townsbg]

I googled it and it is legit. There are a number of ways windows starts programs automatically. First I'd check services.msc, then msconfig.exe, the startup folder on the start menu, and then task scheduler (not manager). https://www.file.net/process/brs.exe.html By the way you could have booted into safe mode to stop it.