PowerShell scripts have the same access capability as any executable... but it may be easier to get a malicious PowerShell script onto and running on a target m

PowerShell scripts have the same access capability as any executable... but it may be easier to get a malicious PowerShell script onto and running on a target machine. Antivirus programs will scan executables and users may know to be suspicious of them, but it's not hard to imagine a user clicking a harmless-looking .ps1 file inside an archive that suddenly starts executing.