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Yes and no. Maybe this theoretical miner would stop mining to drop GPU usage but who knows what else it's doing or data it's exfiltrating. I at one point (for fun) wrote a key-logger entirely in PowerShell and was wrapped as an executable and ran under the name "Windows Software Update" or something like that... it was a long time ago. The process itself would still be there but malware can be pretty good about disguising itself as other things. Keep in mind what I said about looking for the taskmgr process is probably the most basic way to do this. If someone is writing a legitimate sophisticated malware they're probably not writing it in as a simple .NET FX console app and you're better off just nuking your system and starting fresh.
I think they were referring to XMRig which can mine with a GPU. (I don’t know if it actually mines Monero with the GPU or if that’s for mining other algorithms.)