George_S1

Hello, Since removing Avast antivirus, I have not had any more issues. As to WPAD, yes, this is a home office computer. I would recommend that someone looks into setting internet options of 'Use Automatic Script' to 'http://wpad/wpad.dat' and verify whether Malwarebytes generates a false-positive.

Potential fix.... will verify. Using AVAST Antivirus. They have a known issue where it deletes autoconfigURL registry key. If this is true, then Malwarebytes is giving false positive. Here is writeup... https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=203388.30

I appear to have a virus that I just can’t get rid of. Behavior: I work out of home, and use VPN on a Windows 10 machine. I set my Internet Options to ‘Use Automatic Configuration Script’ of http://wpad/wpad.dat. I connect to VPN, and can get access to sites both intranet and internet. However, at some random point in time, internet access stops. I can no longer get to google, etc. When I look at my internet options, ‘Use Automatic Configuration Script’ is unchecked, and the value is empty. I can still get to all sites within my company's intranet, but I cannot get to the public internet. I can always conenct and disconnect to VPN fine. Once connected to VPN, everything will work fine for some period of time, typically 10 seconds to 3-5 minutes. It is random, and I can't find anything to force the issue. I have run Malwarebytes, and registry issues were found relating to proxy. I clean from within Malwarebytes. I run another scan with Malwarebytes and no problems found. If I set my ‘Internet options’ back to ‘Automatic Configuration Script’, Malwarebytes says that I have Malware, specifically Hijack.AutoConfigURL.PrxySvrRST. If I turn ‘Automatic Configuration Script’ off, no threats are found. I am trying to find out if I have a Virus or not, is MalWarebytes giving a false positive, and if so, what is randomly turning off my ‘Automatic Configuration Script’. I have also used: Zemana Hitman Pro Spybot Search and Destroy adsCleaner I have deleted any thing from programs listing that was questionable. (Drivers update program and PDF split/merge program, both freeware). I have attached the Farbar files and Malwarebytes log Any help appreciated. Addition.txt FRST.txt Malwarebytes_log.txt