Thanks for the reply and attached are the scans requested. Note 1: The problem with booting happens when the option "start file execution blocking when protection module starts" is enabled. I can manually start File Protection in Malware Bytes after loading and this doesn't appear to affect anything, it's just during boot. Note 2: When DDS was run Malware Bytes blocked an outgoing connection, details below: IP: 78.46.103.8 Type: Outgoing Port: 49381 Read afterwards that I should have disabled Malware Bytes before running but is that a normal IP block if DDS is run without blocking ? If so then I can re-run DDS after disabling protection. Attach.txt CheckResults.txt DDS.txt Result.txt