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10 Most Useful PowerShell Commands for Everday Users

Use PowerShell in Windows to automate tasks, troubleshoot your device, and extend Windows functionality. Always inspect or verify scripts before running them, and only relax restrictions for trusted ...

‘Users Must Choose’—Microsoft Confirms New Windows Security Feature

Microsoft has made security changes to one of the most popular tools bundled with Windows installations, and now users must ...
CSOonline

Beware PowerShell: Too-helpful users tricked into ‘fixing’ their machines with malware

Attackers are using social engineering to get users to copy, paste, and run malicious scripts — all while thinking they are helping out the IT team. It’s bad enough that crooks foist malware on us for ...

15 Essential PowerShell commands every Windows 11 users should know

On Windows 11, PowerShell is a command-line interface (CLI) developed by Microsoft to execute commands and run scripts. In a ...

Fake MAS Windows activation domain used to spread PowerShell malware

A typosquatted domain impersonating the Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) tool was used to distribute malicious PowerShell ...
ZDNet

NSA, CISA say: Don't block PowerShell, here's what to do instead

Cybersecurity authorities from the US, the UK, and New Zealand have advised businesses and government agencies to properly configure Microsoft's built-in Windows command-line tool, PowerShell – but ...
TWCN Tech News

PowerShell Get-Appxpackage Access Denied, Not recognized or Not working

Get-Appxpackage is a PowerShell command that can display a list of the app packages that are installed in a user profile. It includes all the applications that are installed from the Microsoft Store ...