Hi Kevin -
I ran through the Chrome disinfecting procedure again as described in the post and the malware came back as soon as I opened Chrome. I read through the post again and determined there is one variation between what's described and what the current version of Chrome actually does-
when I turned off sync I was still signed in to Google.
"This will also sign you out of Google."
This did not happen in this particular instance. I would advise others troubleshooting this problem to verify that they are indeed signed out.
After turning off sync I had to go back, click on my Profile icon, and tell it to sign out. Then the little anonymous picture appeared on my Profile. With this condition I ran a Malwarebytes scan again, quarantined what it found, and then restarted my computer. This time a scan came up clean after opening Chrome.
When I tested turning off sync again it did sign me out of Google. So I'm going to blame the crafty adware struggling and grasping at Chrome to try to keep it's hold; otherwise it makes no sense. Now I need to repeat the procedure on my other computers as described in the post.
Regarding the other issue, I thought I had turned all the NI stuff off. LabView has a way of sinking deep roots into the computer it's installed on. I appreciate you pointing that out. If I can't figure out a gentle way to get explorer.exe working again this box will have to have Windows re-installed, which is always it's own brand of joy.
Thanks
Joe T.