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Understanding psminitsessionexe: What It Is, How It Works, and Is It Safe?

If you’ve ever opened the Task Manager on a Windows machine and noticed a process named psminitsessionexe running, you may have done a double-take. Is it malware? Is it a critical Windows component? Why does it consume memory and CPU?

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• Does psminitsessionexe phone home?

  Indirectly. The process itself does not phone home, but it helps the Puppet agent communicate with the Puppet master server (typically ports 8140 or 443). You can inspect traffic with Wireshark. psminitsessionexe

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