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  1. I removed the RAM disk, and as you predicted the FRST program ran smoothly and quickly. I've attached the resulting files one last perusal just to ensure that there are no surprises lurking. The machine is still hanging up, but far less frequently, and no longer requires a re-image, just a cold reboot and it's good for a few sleep cycles before hanging again. I still can get my work done, and that's the point of resolving this issue. My machine is hitting my own 'end-of-life' schedule (ten years), so I will likely replace it in the next few months, and use it for something else (as I've backed everything back up on the cloud). This will be my last posting, as I've now got a handle on this. I really appreciate the effort you expended to find out what was giving my machine "seizures" and was relieved to know that the most likely culprit was my laziness (which I can live with) rather than malware (which is almost impossible to bring those who write this evil to justice). It really meant a lot to me you took the time out to help resolve this problem. I've been working with PCs for almost 40 years, and this was the first time I really got flummoxed and couldn't find a loop-hole or work around. Of course, I started during the days of 8086/DOS and started losing interest after the Pentium/WinNT, since it was becoming a full-time hobby just to keep up with the nuts and bolts of it, but the knowledge carried forth til now. So my sincerest gratitude for your efforts. User_HostileFriendly Addition.txt FRST.txt
  2. I'm slowly getting rid of the files (along with the older security software). As I'm a critical worker, I don't have much time for most of the week. But as soon as I finish removing the files, I'll run the FRST again. I've been doing some runs with it, but it keeps hanging, when it starts searching for "other areas" so it requests whether or not to wait or kill it--which is the latter.. I've only had one hang up of the machine which did not require a re-image, so me thinks that deleting the old stuff is making an impact. I am running a RAM disk with about 4 GB. I use it to launch and cache the web browsers sometimes.
  3. Added the NIR to my exclusion list. See the files below. FRST quit the first time, and I had to kill the process which gave me a Sort-BSOD. But upon the reboot, FRST ran fine. See attached. FRST.txt Addition.txt
  4. Here you go. The two PUPs are old files. NIR always sets off false positives, but I've used it since August. Possible malware, but I've used NIR software for years with no discernible problems. The problem with the machine developed around late February New&ImprovedMB (2020.04.13).txt Quarentine followup (2020.04.13).txt
  5. Interesting occurrence, rebooted my machine. It started a file check & recovery operation. After a few minutes the computer locked up with the disk light remaining on. Rebooted, and again, the machine did a file check & recovery operation. So after the Desktop showed up, I immediately ran FRST64.exe with a scan followed by a fix. The scan completed successfully, yet fix is still rolling along with the log terminating at Google policy. But the machine doesn't lock up. Some process or processes are being killed by FRST64.exe that induce the lockup from what I can tell. See attached. Fixlog.txt FRST.txt Addition.txt
  6. Updated to Win 10, but got the black screen. After three hours, I shut it down, and powered up again. Ran Farbar again, and still have the same problem. Hangs on the Google policy. See attached, it took about eight minutes. Fixlog.txt
  7. This a Windows 7 machine. I've got an upgrade to Win 10--if necessary, I can invoke that.
  8. FBAR continues to slog along, but the Fixlog.txt file seems to hang at eight minutes, with theseclosing texts: "C:\ProgramData\Temp" => ":5C321E34" ADS not found. "C:\ProgramData\Temp" => ":CB0AACC9" ADS not found. "C:\Windows\system32\GroupPolicy\Machine" => not found HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google => not found Fixlog.txt
  9. I mean to say, I ran it for seven hours before performing the reboot while the program was running. Referring to file creation, it took about 13 minutes between the start and finish of the Fixlog.txt file
  10. Rebooted, probably seven hours, but Windows Task Manager indicated normal operation and running one of six core processors at almost the max. See attached file. Fixlog.txt
  11. How long should FRST64.exe run for? (I'm hitting five hours). Is this dependent on the overall number of files?
  12. Per your request. Malware Check (2020.04.06).txt FRST.txt Addition.txt AdwCleaner[C00] (2020.04.06).txt
  13. About the end of February I started to notice that my machine started acting funny, so I assumed that it was some kind of malware. So I restored an image my machine from early January and the same behavior occurred. Then I ran a restoration of my machine from early December. Same bug appeared. The behavior only occurs after I've put my machine into sleep mode for a total of two times. What happens then is I note the disk light starts flashing more and more. The response of the machine becomes increasingly slower and slower until the cursor no longer moves and the disk light stays on steady. At that point, the machine locks up. Rebooting the machine results in a very slow bootup and a much quicker lockup. I've restored the disk image five times, so i've dialed in the symptoms. So, presuming this is malware what steps to i need to remove it? I've backed up my important files, so if it requires a disk wipe, I''m fine with that. But I'd rather identify the bug and remove it and rebuild it from there.
  14. I've got a three-tier backup system. The last tier is air-gapped and never connected to a computer being restored unless the recovery disk is running. As for why I have three-tier backup rather than just one? College senior project report. In those days, floppies were the USB sticks of their day. I made two backups against the original because my gut told me to (and floppies were cheap). When I got ready to print out my report (100 pages or so), I found the original was bad, so I went to the first backup and ... it too, was bad. Sweating, I found the 2nd backup was still good and made two more copies. My printout was good, and I graduated. Good lesson to learn, since then in the last 35 years, I've five or six cases where the a backup has gone wrong and that second copy saved my skin. Anyway, I'll skip the battle, my project awaits. Thanks.
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