Account Unknown(S-1-15-3-65536-1888954469-739942743-1668119174-2468466756-4239452838-1296943325-355587736-700089176)

Anonymous
2022-10-31T10:36:40+00:00

So recently I updated Windows 11 to its latest 22H2 Version. I noticed that in the properties section of my C Drive, also in the security tab there is a user named "Account Unknown(S-1-15-3-65536-1888954469-739942743-1668119174-2468466756-4239452838-1296943325-355587736-700089176)

Now, my question is, is this user is associated with current version of windows? Because if I want to delete it, warning dialog occurs. And if this is any other problem, then how can I solve this?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Windows update

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-06-30T18:35:15+00:00

    I've discovered the same account associated with "Special Permissions" on my OS Drive. Just removed it, but in the process made a connection back to a strange occurance around a month ago where the entire size of all of my harddrives were downloaded within two hours on the same day. Here are all of the logs from that day including a picture I took shortly after the discovery. Eventually "MSFT 5.0" masked itself with my Computer Name too.

    It will not allow me to post the raw images on this thread so you can find all related logs in this google share drive.

    Main folder with logs included from Norton Security/Windows/ASUS Router at time of occurance: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DlowoBjYtDrfV7EydHf3lNqYUsj4Zk-5?usp=drive_link

    SSID Before Spoof: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18EZ9NHzZpjISMOF1JHuJvvnOTta8wiPm/view?usp=drive_link

    SSID After Spoof: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r9JBJyKg67No-jEn61qXZJcAdn5KoU5O/view?usp=drive_link

    You'll notice in the logs that Windows Update and General were the specified downloading applications, a little further digging and diahost.exe was responsible for the 1.3TB+ DL to who knows where.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-07-09T17:32:06+00:00

    Uff já mám něco podobného v pc taky , ale je tu ještě jedna věc do pc se mi dostal RDB WRAPPER a ja se ho nedokážu zbavit

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-08-07T23:08:05+00:00

    It's actually WDAGUtilityAccount

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-08-13T14:04:42+00:00

    Hi Imran,

    I am Dave, I will help you with this.

    Windows creates hidden security accounts in the background of the operating system, they all begin with S-1-15-XXXX, all Windows systems have those accounts, they are used for administrative tasks like Windows Security, installing updates, file management...etc. those accounts are normal and rest assured you have nothing to worry about, you should never try to remove those hidden accounts.

    hello,I found an error while using git, related to this unknown account

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-09-07T11:34:06+00:00

    hey imran i have same problem what can i do please tell me

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