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Powershell sudden high ram usage

Anonymous
2023-04-15T17:52:19+00:00

After some time of turning on the pc, Windows PowerShell pops up for an instant and disappears instantly. After that the Windows PowerShell keeps running in the background and takes too much ram causing the pc to work slow. It takes more than 4 gb of ram. It also takes high amount of cpu usage. Is my pc being hacked? How to solve this problem?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Ramesh 176.5K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2023-04-15T18:29:03+00:00

    A coin miner malware could cause this issue. Download Malwarebytes and run a full scan.

    If that doesn't help, download Farbar Recovery Scan Tool (FRST64.exe) from the following link:

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

    • Run FRST64.exe and click "Scan".
    • Upload the two logs, namely, FRST.txt and Addition.txt, to your OneDrive and share the link here.

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  2. Ramesh 176.5K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2023-04-17T03:03:19+00:00
    • Download FixList.txt
    • Make sure FRST64.exe and FixList.txt are in the same folder.
    • Launch FRST64.exe and click "Fix".
    • Upload the output log file (FixLog.txt) to your OneDrive.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-16T19:27:43+00:00

    Thanks a lot. Sorry for the delay.

    Here are the 2 files:

    FRST.txt

    Addition.txt

    Thanks in advance

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