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Maurice, I don't know how, but somehow over the weekend it fixed itself! Everything seems to be running fine again. Those files you mentioned were very old games which I thought I had deleted years ago. I found the files and did delete them now. Thank you again for all of your time and help. Should I keep all of the scan programs I downloaded or should I delete them?

I tried to temporarily disable MB's, to see if that would make a difference, right clicked the icon and cliked on "close MB's", but in the Task Manager I can see it is still running, and running two MBAMWsc.exes??

I don't know what happened but now everything is VERY slow to open. Even Firefox is slow to open websites and Adobe Acrobat doesn't work at all anymore. What has happened??

Yes, I did that and now it seems fine and the reports are showing the correct date. Earlier you wrote - " There are a very large number of very suspicious settings on this PC at this point that look like they are designed to prevent anything from running.. There are also 2 very suspicious EXE files on the Documents folder that have multiple tasks ( repeating tasks) to run those EXE files. It is not normal to have executable programs running out of the Documents folder; nor to have them set many times as automatic pc tasks." What EXE files were you talking about? And again, thank you for all the help.

I know the report says no infection but why would the date be wrong?

OK, I ran the scan exactly as you detailed and MBAR says "No infection found" and did not create a log. I then ran an MB's scan as you detailed, the log is attached but again it shows the wrong date and says everything is fine. Should I try and run MBAR again?? MB Scan 08-21-2020.txt

I have done as you asked. A few things you should know, this is an office, it is currently 8:50 AM where I am at, I will be leaving here today at 3:00 PM and will not be back until Monday. Also, yesterday I ran payroll, did online bill pay, transferred direct pays, and online tax payments. Am I in real trouble here? Can't I just delete these programs? Thank you for the help you are giving me. Fixlog.txt

Hello Maurice, my name is Peter. The MB's report I sent is NOT old, it is from yesterday. I mentioned that the dates on the reports are wrong when I open them up. The dates are correct in the summary view but not when I view the individual reports. Also, downloaded the .exe file and my computer won't let it run. I keep getting the message, "This program is blocked by group policy. For more information contact your system administrator." I tried right clicking and running as administrator, same result. Oh and BTW, I am the administrator, small one man office here.

MB seems to be running fine BUT when I check the scan reports, when I open the report it shows the wrong date. Additionally, when I click on advanced it shows all of the scan options as being disabled??? It also shows 1 item detected and 1 item ignored. I have attached the requested files. FRST.txt Addition.txt 8-19-20.txt

I will read these articles. I will also look elsewhere for the cause, I was worried because it happened so suddenly. Thank you for all of your help, I feel reassured that it is not a virus.

Wow, ok took 13 hours to complete. Found and removed 6 items, I've attached the report. So if I don't have an infection it must be something else causing the slow down...correct? eset scan log.txt

AdwCleaner[S00].txt I did go into Task Manager and turned off all startup items yesterday but that did not help.

MB Results.txtMB Hyperscan.txt

I think I may be infected because all of a sudden my computer is running VERY slow, even though Task Manager shows nothing eating up memory, disk, or CPU. I did run the MB scan and nothing came up. I will run the scan again along with the Defender scan and post results here. Will take a while as it is so slow.

Addition.txtFRST.txt