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Re:New Brazilian Banking Trojan Uses Windows PowerShell Utility by user5994461 on Saturday August 20, 2016 @04:40PM (#12328222)
It took a while for powershell to be installed on most computers. It's still certainly missing on many computers (i.e. the oldest and most vulnerable).

I actually don't know whether it is installed as default in the latest Microsoft OS and patches.

That and the very easy way to analyse/reverse engineer scripts don't make a great candidate for malware.

Anyway, the windows shell is enough for trivial scripts, and one might as well write software in a real programming language for the rest.

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Re:New Brazilian Banking Trojan Uses Windows PowerShell Utility by contextfree on Sunday August 21, 2016 @12:25AM (#12329363)
It's been installed by default since Windows 7 and PS v2. The only version that wasn't installed by default with a Windows release was PS v1 (introduced at the same time as Vista).
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