SoftEther VPN (vpnclient_x64.exe) - Background Network Traffic!

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I caught the service running in the background, even after the tray icon was exit. The executable is persistent, and restarts every time the process is end tasked. I’ve been receiving MULTIPLE copyright infringement notices from my ISP, and noticed an excess of network traffic…

The application turned my PC into a seedbox in the background while I was away on vacation for a while…

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I noticed it too. My router’s port was blinking like crazy when the PC was idle. No VPN connections were active and the virtual adapter was disabled. I stopped the SoftEther VPN service and it stopped. My guess is that it turns your PC into another VPN server, but I’m not sure.

In the worst case scenario, it’s actively collecting and sending your data somewhere.

3

I dont get it. Vpn client is connecting to another server
If how your pc being run as seedbox? Unless you are running L2 layer and one of the remote site connected back to you

4

hi,

first day, i connected and ip was changed,

but after that it show connected but isn’t change ip address.

what is the problem?

5

Here they thought I was crazy. You can’t trust anything these days. I need to at least backup my important data.

6

The app straight from their website had a trojan or something built in. No VPN connections active. PC idle.

Looked at the network traffic and it was connected to MANY IPs and P2P traffic running hard. Not happy. Neither is my ISP.

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I remember that one day the vpnclient_x64.exe process was sending data at around 3 Mb/s (I monitored its activity in the task manager). Something is fishy here for sure. Maybe there’s something written in the license agreement that we didn’t read.

Are you using the VPN Gate add-on that provides the list of public servers?