Windows 11 Confirmation: Is the Search (3) in Task Manager a virus?

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Flint Harlow

Sometimes my computer fan kicks in, so I check the task manager to see if I can eliminate any of these processes that take up ram. I keep finding this one called "Search (3)" and so I looked on other posts, but they are pretty unclear whether this is a virus or not. It takes multiple clicks of the end task button to suspend it, but it keeps popping up later. I used the arrow to show the three tasks under it, and navigated to each of the files and scanned them with Mcafee, but Mcafee says they are fine. I'm so confused, is this a virus? It keeps popping up for no reason, and takes multiple clic

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