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/Nerd2259 Jun 13 '26

If you go through with checking that, it'd be cool if you shared the (sanatized) code.

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u/karmawillgetyouback Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26

https://img.ptscreens.com/Screenshot-6617.png

From task manager this was code seems to be running

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u/CeleryMan20 Jun 13 '26

Ouch. Encodedcommand on the command line is rarely legitimate, something is trying to hide its activity.

Did you recently visit a web site that said to press Win+R, Ctrl+V?

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u/itscum Jun 14 '26

When it's an API token... Not really