r/PowerShell 2d ago

Solved Warning: ISESteroids Update is malicious

When I launched ISESteroids (Start-Steroids) I clicked update. Chrome notified me that the website was not-safe dummy here found the run website anyway and the Avast nightmare began ... 5 popup windows that my computer had 5 virus's , anti-virus not installed, blah blah blah .. Shutdown chrome, cleared my cookies, %temp% directory.. these popups just kept reappearing if I closed one.

reboot doesn't fix anything.. nothing in task manager helps narrow down what's launching even with chrome closed... sysinternals autoruns no help. real help.

While I built a new Veeam Agent install usb to potentially restore from yesterday (3 hour process) I started poking around in chrome and in the extensions I found something I didn't recognize and deleted it.. rebooted the computer and now its back to normal without restoring from backup.

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