my cohost cpu usage goes up to 30% when my task manager is closed

[waterguy22]

i did some tests and used this command "Get-Counter '\Process(*)\% Processor Time' | Select-Object -ExpandProperty countersamples| Select-Object -Property instancename, cookedvalue| ? {$_.instanceName -notmatch "^(idle|_total|system)$"} | Sort-Object -Property cookedvalue -Descending| Select-Object -First 25| ft InstanceName,@{L='CPU';E={($_.Cookedvalue/100/$env:NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS).toString('P')}} -AutoSize" on the microsoft powershell that shows whats using up cpu usage, and i noticed that a thing called cohost uses up 30% cpu usage when my task manager is closed, but when i open my task manager the cpu usage for cohost goes back to 0 the normal usage,im having suspicion that theres malware involved, if anyone experiences this please help.

[MKDB]

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