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SysInternals Process explorer keeps submitting smss.exe for scanning at VirusTotal

There might be some kind of bug in Process Explorer or VirusTotal (not your issue) that triggers a full scan of be09b15c760cd37ccab1e227cf0ce829e8efb1c88840e14ed9e48cfcea1817ab every time Process Explorer is opened and sees it (smss.exe, pretty core to Windows) running.

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This might have something to do with it being the odd process that's not started from C:\, but as \SystemRoot\System32\smss.exe

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