HP.OMEN.OMENInstallMonitor task hijacked computer

[ssabiany]

HP.OMEN.OMENInstallMonitor task has reproduced itself exponentially, causing CPU and memory to reach 100% usage. Stopping one of the tasks just opens another one. I am completely unable to use my computer. It was fine last night. This needs a resolution ASAP. This is a years-old monitor, that without update or change has caused my 3 month-old PC to be useless. I can never buy another HP computer due to reliability and quality issues, and now I don't feel I can buy anything HP branded ever again. I am not the only person experiencing this issue. This is ridiculous.

[poncus]

Hi, I had the same problem this morning. I really don’t know a lot about computers and i really just use mine for video games and talking to friends. What I did was uninstall Omen Gaming Hub in Apps & Features (Didn’t even know it was ever installed) and Restarted my laptop. This seems to have worked for me.

[JelloJon]

I woke up and turned on my computer this morning, came back from a couple errands and noticed it was extra hot in my room. Opened task manager -> performance and noticed my CPU, memory, and Disc 1 were at 100% use. Opened resource monitor and found that HP OMEN INSTALL MONITOR kept trying to replicate/open/ or install itself. My Disc space was at 124GB but this morning it was down to 72GB. I don't know what the HECK it was doing, but it is NOT ok. It was frying my computer for several hours at 100% before I noticed anything. I don't even own an OMEN computer, this bloatware must have installed itself when I had a gaming HP monitor for a short time, but I never removed it as I thought it was some harmless gaming software. Deleted OMEN gaming Hub or whatever that trash is called, and my system is seemingly back to normal (after being overheated for HOURS).

This is not okay, who developed this APP? It is potentially harmful and completely stupid. Bye bye OMEN software and products going forward.

[OmenKiller69]

Thank God I found this. I am having the exact same issue, @HP, this is literal effing malware. I can't do my college assignments because HP.OMEN.Monitor.install is dupping itself like over 40 times and consuming all of my memory, it just bricked my drivers. This is actually NOT OK. Even after I tried killing the app from windows, and then un-installed it, nothing happened other than my computer bricking with a driver crash, stuck mouse, and black screen. This is awful. 100% memory, 100% Disk, 45-68% CPU usage. 

Update: after uninstall I had to hard reset my PC via PDU, the app somehow STILL popped up, I tried to go to file location from task manager, said it didn't exist....played with the skip and retry and eventually it deleted something. Back down to 2% CPU, 26% Mem, 0% disk. 

Guys, this is actually like malware

[johnsmithgl65]

Great to know this is happening to other people and it's not just my computer having a hardware failure.

Has anyone posted this to HP's social media accounts? I think that might be useful to get their attention as soon as possible.

[sisasp]

Thank you had the same problem and did as you and now its ok.

[myster_]

Same here. Just made this account to give this post awareness and to say that launching task manager on boot and slamming the end task button them eventually seemed to overcome them launching and I got them all to stop.

Currently trying to find where it is installed so I can uninstall it, but it does not appear in Win11 listed installed software/apps.  Can't even find it with a broad search of "HP" or "OMEN".

When software causes system crashes and does not appear in a search and can not be uninstalled, that is malicious software.

Currently attempting to add it to a blacklist in my malware blockers.

[Wallur]

Hi, I got the same problem, and found a fix (I hope, let´s see how temporal it is).

Open the task scheduler, look for the Omen and eliminate/disable, but this was just temporal as when I restarted it appeared again, so I followed the path to the file that was executing each time a program was excecuted, and change the name of the folder, so the scheduler couldn't find the file to execute, so it doesn't matter the task reappears, if it can't find the file, can't execute it.
program files\HP\OmenInstallMonitor
I changed the name of the "HP" folder, but you gotta do it at the start before it starts opening it (or booting in safe mode or something), but once the folder's name is changed, it won't execute anymore, now my CPU is at usual 10%

[LeBigTater]

I just had this issue this morning. Someone already said something along the lines of this, but you can also boot into safe mode, HP Omen Install thingie is stored in appdata/local/HP AND /Temp, as well as in c:/programfiles. Delete those both, and uninstall omen. HP, shame on you for having such buggy software. I legitimately thought that there was malware on my computer because of this. Multi billion dollar companies need to be taken down a peg.

[LeBigTater]

Try my solution to it, it worked for me and i didnt have to fiddle with Task manager. This fix only works if you don't have a crap ton of RAM.

This was meant to be in reply to someone, HP's website is stupid and didn't actually reply to that person specifically.