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Author Topic: Powershell.exe starts on it's own and takes up to 3.8 GB of RAM  (Read 15540 times)

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elabis

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    Powershell.exe starts on it's own and takes up to 3.8 GB of RAM
    « on: February 06, 2023, 01:54:48 PM »
    Hello!
    So I have a problem, this happens every day, this process starts and it takes a lot of CPU sometimes too, up to 16% of 8 core CPU. Here's an image from Process Explorer that shows the powershell.exe I started and one that starts on it's own:




    This is the one I started. I scanned my compute with BitDefender and it didn't find anything.

    elabis

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      Re: Powershell.exe starts on it's own and takes up to 3.8 GB of RAM
      « Reply #1 on: February 08, 2023, 02:36:56 PM »
      I fixed it, it was Trojan.