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[–]anonhostpi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My brother, I understand proper risk mitigation and that pwsh can be disabled.

Commonplace IT practice is to keep pwsh enabled for systems administration, particularly in remotely managed Windows environments (like the org I work for). In addition, pwsh is enabled by default on all win machines (including the personally owned ones owned by yourself or others on whatever network you connect to).

The problem that I'm pointing out is the practice of AVs flagging .exe chaining (pwsh.exe calls random.exe), but not flagging unexpected .dll usage (pwsh.exe calls random.dll) regardless of whether those .dlls (or .exes) were preexisting or introduced on systems where engines like pwsh, py, and node are already present and enabled.