Unprompted TASKKILL command shuts down Photoshop randomly

[HannahGrace.Face]

I'm stumped on this one. My photoshop program has been shuting down randomly with no crash report, and I've found that the Command window pops up quickly and closes before I could even see what the command was until I miraculously clicked on the window while working and this is the command that came up:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>TASKKILL  /F  /IM Photoshop.exe

That's what's been killing the program, I'm assuming. I have no idea how it happened. Is there any way to cancel this umprompted command?

[Ged_Traynor]

Hi

What exact version of Photoshop and operating system do you have, have you tried resetting your Photoshop preferences

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html

Photoshop crashes are generally related to buggy drivers, especially GPU drivers

You can normally stop a command running in the command prompt by hitting Ctrl + C

Have you checked Windows Event Viewer in the application log for errors relating to Photoshop.exe

[J453]

It's likely an outside source (security software or malicious software) running on your comptuer.

[Dramenon]

Please provide information in Photoshop, select Help > System Info.

Select Help > System Info.

1. In the System Info dialog, click Copy.
2. Attach or copy the info here to this thread. 

It is highly unusual (to me) that a program would forcibly shutdown Photoshop, unless it was being over protective (security software) or malicious.

edit reply:

Do you have Security/Virus Protection software?  I would run a scan, Windows has a built-in one... Defender.