Audiorecord.exe -

If you find this process running on a laptop, right-click the Speaker icon in the system tray. If a Realtek or OEM-specific menu appears, the executable is likely a benign driver component.

Part of the open-source PSAudio module (or legacy Windows SDK samples), there are official command-line tools designed to capture audio for testing and automation. In this context, audiorecord.exe is a lightweight console app that records sound from a microphone or system output directly to a WAV file. audiorecord.exe

In a bizarre twist, some poorly written coin miners have been discovered using audiorecord.exe as a decoy name. They rely on the fact that most users don't know what audio processes should look like, and they assume an audio tool wouldn't max out the CPU. If you find this process running on a