Advice Request NPE detection - Microsoft.PowerShell\"ExecutionPolicy"

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JB007

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May 19, 2016
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It's not false positive but not malicious either. It's rather a security issue/hole. A program that you've installed probably changed the default restriction policy and this should be reverted back to the default restricted value. To fix it,
Run Powershell as administrator then type/copy-paste this "Set-ExecutionPolicy restricted -Force" without the quotation mark and hit enter.
This should fix this issue. After this, re-scan with NPE and this would be gone (y)
Thanks @SeriousHoax and @cruelsister (y)
I applied @SeriousHoax instruction and verified with @cruelsister instruction and then with NPE.
All seems to be OK.
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