Should I panic?

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Propkid

Propkid

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If I do a little laptop cleanup and find these two things installed on it and I have no recollection of installing OR ever knowing what they are, should I be worried?
http://www.winpcap.org/
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/ (KeyFinder)

I have a strange feeling that someone's butting into my laptop. Call me paranoid but... these 2 were NOT installed on it last time I was browsing my programs. I remember pretty damn well that the last program in Start Menu's All Programs was x264vfw (video codec *chocolate cookies*) and not WinPCap...

What have I been up to recently that makes me so worried? Well, I browsed a bit of the .onion network, but didn't do anything stupid AFAIK.

My AV is good and up to date, Windows Defender is reporting an issue since ever- so nothing unusual has been happening.

Should I panic?
 
SeymourGore

SeymourGore

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I've used jellybean in the past. No idea about winpcap, seems like some sort of nerdy networking information program.
 
Propkid

Propkid

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For now discard jellybean, I seem to have found an explanation for it, although it seems silly...

WinPCap- if someone could tell me whether the Tor browser installs it as just a tool for safer browsing then I'll be relieved, but Google searches say no. And I am worried about what this was doing on my laptop.
 
Voltage

Voltage

Puzzlemaster
I recently found video editing software that I had never seen before installed on my computer, I was baffed. Just uninstalled them and ran every possible security scan, nothing came up- everything seems fine.

It's most probably nothing serious at all, but there's a possibility that it could be. A video editing software is one thing and a networking program is another.
 
Dabbleh

Dabbleh

Legions Developer
A lot of networking utilities have WinPcap as a dependency. It does come bundled with software a lot.
 
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