Flashing window oddity

[bamaster]

My Surface Book is doing something odd. Every now and then, typically right after booting up, I see a window pop open and close immediately. It's just a blip. Kinda looks like a comand prompt window. Seems to be part of the boot up sequence.

Anyone else have this happen? It made me think it was some type of spyware so I did a clean restore today. But it's still doing it. The flashing window doesn't bother me so much as the notion that it could be something nefarious. hehe

Thoughts?

 

[bamaster]

Ok, I was able to record the popup window. In the title bar of the window it has "C:\Windows\System32\SurfaceSystem.exe"

I can't be the only one that sees this.

/ON EDIT

I'm not the only one...
Anyone know what "SurfaceService.exe" does?

 

[jnjroach]

We all see it this service was added after one of the Firmware Updates - It is a System Device Driver

 

[BearFlag]

Ok, I was able to record the popup window. In the title bar of the window it has "C:\Windows\System32\SurfaceSystem.exe"

I can't be the only one that sees this.

/ON EDIT

I'm not the only one...
Anyone know what "SurfaceService.exe" does?

Thank you. Was wondering what the flashing window was.

 

[bamaster]

We all see it this service was added after one of the Firmware Updates - It is a System Device Driver

It seems so. It wasn't there until recently. Living in the Middle East, I must be vigilant about intrusions.

I use Windscribe for blocking trackers and VPN, and also use KeyScrambler to hide keysctrokes (which is having problems with W10 lately). Can't ever be too cautious.