This nwjs program appears to share a name with Nwjs.exe which is a Trojan virus, however as far as I can tell from my (admittedly limited) information these two programs are not the same. I cannot find definitive information as to whether or not this is a harmful program, however, and I have found even less information on how to safely remove it.
From what I have gathered this nwjs I am dealing with is just a javascript tool or something like that and it's ultimately harmless apart from the mental damage I get every time I see a new ad pop up. I have no idea how this got on my system, it's been on here for a good month at least I'd say.
The ad I have been getting spammed withI downloaded popcorn time from this website,https://popcorntime.app/. However, when I run the program and go to task manager it says nwjs (32 bit), looking online it says that the program is adware/malware. This website, https://www.file.net/process/popcorn%20time.exe.html#:~:text=Popcorn%20Time.exe%20is%20able,security%20rating%20is%2051%25%20dangerous.&text=Important%3A%20Some%20malware%20camouflages%20itself,C%3A%5CWindows%5CSystem32%20folder. , says that popcorn time is a keylogger and that the program is named popcorn time.exe. but in my files it says popcorn-time.exe. I'm not sure whether it is a virus or not but my virus protector says it's okay.
There’s this “nwjs” folder in appdata/local which I have no idea where it came from. The only thing inside is “User Data” and inside that folder there are “crashpadmetrics.pma” and “crashpadmetrics-active.pma”
There’s nothing else inside of it. I’m guessing it’s just to send info about crashes for whatever program put it in my Pc.
There are no .exe inside of it, and there are no processes running under the name “nwjs”
I don’t use chrome btw (I read chrome adds something similar) I use Opera only. I also saw somewhere that nwjs can be addware, however there have been 0 signs of addware in my pc. Windows defender also didn’t notice anything weird in those files.
So, should I be worried or is it just something normal??
Edit: the exact path is user/appdata/local/nwjs