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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.
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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.
Thank you for your help!
