Windows 11 CMD.exe starts up automatically on every restart and takes up a huge chunk of memory(~2GB)

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Hi, I am Sam. I recently started encountering this trouble where everytime I started up my pc, and connected it to internet, it would start an instance of cmd.exe that would take up a chunk of my Memory (~2GB). I saw this problem reported by three more fellas on this community and one dude on a reddit. A dude on that reddit post claimed that this is a cryptocurrency trojan that uses up your computer resources to mine cryptocurrency. That would explain the need for an active internet connection to kickstart the process. Also, once the process is closed, it doesn't commence automatically on any

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