I went AFK in the Savegame screen, and when I came back, a savegame called "prod-telemetry" that I didn't create was on screen

[JustinianI.]

The title pretty much sums up my issue. Is this something that should be expected, or is something odd going on and I should check my PC for Malware? It sounds like something that should be intentional, but I have never seen it happen before, and a google search comes up with nothing useful.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Edit: Another prod_telemetry save was created while I was playing. I don't know what's doing this. Any information would be appreciated.

 

[AndrewT]

The short answer is I have no idea!

My first thought was this was what it looks like, some telemetry thing in the game. But I don't see any option in pdx_settings.json about that. Is pops_filestorage.index more than 0 bytes?

Googling that filename does bring up some concerns, so yes I would scan your machine for malware just in case.

 

[JustinianI.]

The short answer is I have no idea!

My first thought was this was what it looks like, some telemetry thing in the game. But I don't see any option in pdx_settings.json about that. Is pops_filestorage.index more than 0 bytes?

Googling that filename does bring up some concerns, so yes I would scan your machine for malware just in case.

No, it's precisely 0 bytes still. I will do a complete system scan later. Thanks for your help.

EDIT: A complete system scan came up empty, no viruses. I changed all my passwords just to be safe, but there doesn't seem to be any suspicious login activity on my steam account at least. Furthermore, the respective savegames could be loaded and were... savegames of the game I was playing at that time that had been generated without me doing anything about it. I still have no idea what happened.