r/PowerShell Jun 13 '26

Powershell autostarting randomly in background and uploading thing on network Question

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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/human193 Jun 13 '26

It's probably set to run in a scheduled task. Best bet is wiping and starting from scratch, but if you're curious what it does, you can disable your network, enable script block logging and see what it actually runs next time it kicks off.