buckyswider

OK, maybe not, sorry for the interruption. I was noticing the ports only at first; now I see mine are all from the same IP (which resolves to "Cloudovs Vietnam").

I just started receiving these incessantly as well. I think it may be something outside of our PCs- maybe an over cautious new set of threat definitions, or some hackathon going on somewhere in the wild.

48+ hours for me now, no more anomalies noted!

I installed the new version a couple hours ago. No BSODs (yes, I had a four our five of them along with my 30-40 hard freezes) but I did have a few anomalies so far, which may or may not be related. One was opening a text file in Notepad++. It just hung and I had to force-close the window. Worked fine the next time. The other was typing text into a web browser (chrome) window. It echoed the first three characters I typed, but it took about 10 seconds for the next characters to appear.

Also, a totally anecdotal observation: Not always, but a large percentage of my hangs seemed to be at or very near the top of the hour (like :00, :01, :02). I didn't track this, so it may just be Clustering Illusion, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway. And the amount of spam email these days helped form this observation also- I'd come home/wake up to a frozen PC, and after I power cycled, I could see the timestamp on the last received email...so for instance the last one was 4:58, and after outlook again started pulling down new messages the next one would be like 5:02. Again not scientific, and may just be a false observation, but it was enough to cause me to scour logs and the windows scheduler to see if I could find any task or messages that happened at the top of the hour.

Thanks Telliege. I disabled Web- we'll see what happens. I'm far from an MWB power user- I pretty much install it and let it do its thing, so I'm not familiar with much of the vernacular...

Thanks to user LavaLamps for pointing me here from sevenforums. And a HUGE HUGE HUGE thanks to axe0 over at sevenforums who has been working with me for 3+ weeks now trying to troubleshoot my consistent hangs and occasional BSODs. The most suspect component (as usual) was the NVIDA drivers. I tried pretty much every version of driver out there. I bought a "new" video card (same model) to replace mine to see it was a hardware issue. Didn't help. Finally went out and replaced the NVIDIA based card with a RADEON based card. No good. I actually had a new Win10 system in my shopping cart and almost pulled the trigger, but I don't have the cycles at this point in time to migrate to a new PC. I break out in a cold sweat thinking about re-installing / migrating Outlook, One Note, Adobe Acrobat full, AcrGIS Pro, Visio, ent other license-based components. I know someday I will have to, but I'm smack dab in the middle of a boatload of stuff right now and besides, my system really ones well (ya know, aside from the hangs!!!) What's my best move for the short-term: disable realtime protection??

....and just like that...IT'S BAAAAAAACK!!!

+1. Just started this morning.