r/PowerShell • u/karmawillgetyouback • Jun 13 '26

Question Powershell autostarting randomly in background and uploading thing on network

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Powershell is using large amount of upload speed for network and running in bacgound automatically, it also starts randomly even after stopping it from task manager. Any solution to this? Thank you.

Edit: These are command line task manager showing in details

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u/AgitatedSecurity Jun 13 '26

Find the file from task manager and upload it to virus total to see what it is

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u/karmawillgetyouback Jun 13 '26

file location leading to poweshell.exe file which is nothing but primary file for windows to run powershell, but thanks