Powershell running in background

Question

I randomly noticed that powershell was running on it's own in background tasks. I don't know what any of this means and I'm very worried.

Answer 1

There's no malware. When Discord launches, just after the login it launches seven instances of Windows Powershell all with exactly the same command line:

powershell.exe -NoLogo -InputFormat Text -NoExit -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command -

Which does absolutely nothing but throw an error as "-" is not a valid command.

Answer 2

Please share Farbar Recovery Scan Tool (FRST) logs.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/farbar-recovery-scan-tool/

• If your computer language is not English, rename FRST64.exe to FRST64English.exe
• Run FRST and press "Scan"
• Two logs are created in the folder that FRST is run from, FRST.txt and Addition.txt
• Upload the logs to OneDrive, Google Drive or any file sharing service and post the share link

Note: If you are downloading FRST with Edge, smartscreen will initially block it.

Click on the 3 dots next to the warning and select Keep-> Show more-> Keep anyway.

Share OneDrive files and folders - Microsoft Support

Answer 3

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QvuRUIL9_YLL56KPC-tLgwsIjLfFAsDC?usp=drive_link

Answer 4

Please change the share permissions to "Anyone with the link" or grant my access request. Thanks.

Answer 5

I though I granted you access? Unless that was someone else. No matter, I changed permissions. You should be able to see it now.