RottenApollo

Also this c: kprm-20230227212417.txt

Thank you so much!! I greatly appreciate all your help and will proceed to make the appropriate updates you've provided me! You're awesome, thank you, thank you!! c: Please be well c: Bye bye

Hello! Took me a while to figure out turning off SmartScreen, but didn't get very far. I realized it must not be running though, because I was able to download and run SecurityCheck with no issues. Here is the log c: SecurityCheck.txt

I couldn't find where the first log was saved, so I ran it a couple times, but it turned up squeaky clean! c: AdwCleaner[S02].txt

Hello! All done c: Looks good in there finished scan.txt

Computer is feeling really good so far c: Scan is complete, with 832171 files scanned and no threats.

Here it is! Completed and restarted computer with no issues. Fixlog.txt

Thank you so much! I just read your instructions and I'm starting now - back with the results soon!

Hello and thank you! I've taken all of the steps c: It's difficult to be specific about which folders, because I only remember to go through occasionally, but I find that things I've deleted before in my program files folder and AppData local and roaming folder reemerge. Although for AppData, that's typically what will happen when I'm using programs, but they include things for programs I don't have installed like spotify, skype, and others. When I delete these folders, suddenly my computer runs like a dream, but when I come back the next day, it's bad again. Something I've done is turn off windows search, because it would show as eating all my CPU in task manager, and because nvidia would show searchapp.exe as running on my GPU. Nevertheless, it runs in the details tab of task manager. The same is true of textinputhost.exe and startmenuexperiencehost.exe, which appear to use my GPU at times, and my computer runs better when close them. Sometimes they stay closed, sometimes the return immediately. Settings in Nvidia control panel often change by themselves and performance improves when I fix them. I suspect my issue is a rootkit, but honestly I have no idea what's going on with my computer.

Understood! Thank you c: mbst-grab-results.zip

Hello out there c: I'm Isaac, thank you for being here to help. I've had issues with my computer for a very long time. Sometimes it's really slow, and I delete folders, perform a whole ritual with stop apparently legitimate services, which sometimes makes my computer super fast. But they always reappear and I'm always back to square one. Some folders I can't delete, because when I try, windows tells me the folder is no longer located where it is, despite being there for... embarrassingly long. This is my fault. I've had MB premium for a long time now and it doesn't seem to be catching everything it should. I'm excited I found these forums and all the help you provide - so thank you. c: FRST.txtAddition.txt