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Glad to hear that and I hope the vacation is good. Also good to hear re: Microsoft Windows Defender. I guess I'll try looking at it once more! So I've googled around and there's someone who said to change a particular setting in the router from domain.name to domain.local. I tried that, and... there's been some MAJOR reduction. Not completely gone, I don't think--but it's reduced from like, 5 times an hour to once every couple hours. I'm not sure what happened, but we'll see for now. Once more, @AdvancedSetup, thank you so much for the assistance. Of course, if you want to consider this case closed and close the thread, I think I'll be fine with it at this point. Any further issues is probably tied to the router...if not the ISP.

Oh, goodness gracious, been a while since I have the time to sort this out. My deepest apologies! Let's see-- I've managed to access the router. Because of that I also managed to find the specific type of my router (D-Link DIR-612), the user manual, and the firmware. From here, the way I see it I have to factory reset my modem, and then update the firmware, and then reestablish the connection. After that then I'll see if the problem still exist--if yes, then I'll probably consider uninstalling Avast. Re: Paid subscription, I'm afraid I don't have any. And then I realize that microsoft defender is no longer free... Hmm.

Hello, I'm coming back with a little bit of an update. I cannot find the user manual for now, so updating the firmware becomes a bit risky. Asking my brother in law also leads nowhere. It's been a while since we installed the router. Disabling proxy requests and restarting also doesn't help. At this rate I'm considering uninstalling avast. But I don't know if Microsoft Defender (and Malwarebytes) alone is enough to protect this.

Alright, will do. I need to ask my brother in law because he's the one who installed the router, so it may take a while.

Alright, no worries! Attached here are FRST.txt and Addition.txt! for now I'll try logging into my router to prepare for updating my firmware. Addition.txt FRST.txt

Casual googling seems to indicate that this is a false positive from Avast? Should I redownload FRST and then run it on safe mode again?

....so I finally restarted the whole thing and the WPAD issue still persists. Furthermore, I tried running Farbar. First it updated, but when I try to select Fix, the program said it cannot run because it required fixlist.txt. And then when I run it the second time... This warning from Avast appears. That being said, further scan gives no result.

Update, I haven't done any reset because things are busy and there's a lot of people in the house right now. Apologies! Will do it tomorrow. >_<

Alright, will try at least turning it off and on first.

...I'd like to think it does. I mean, it sure explains why the constant pinging even after so much scanning. Also, I've been connecting to the Internet with my mobile data, and I find that the WPAD issue stops completely. A few hours have passed and there's zero alert. So most likely there's some kind of mess in the Wi-Fi I'm using. ...But the steps on this site looks overtly confusing O_O. Can I ask for another guide?

Alright, I will update the programs soon! As per the WPAD issue, I still have them. I think the amount might be lessened, but I'm not sure. Am going to try connecting to a different internet to see if the problem persists.

Alright, here's the file! SecurityCheck.txt

Alright, so I've done everything! Attached are the files. Thank you for the assistance, and apologize for the delay! mbst-grab-results.zip Fixlog.txt malwarebytes list.txt

I'm attaching the images I took when opening frst64.exe and the notepad where I pasted the code you posted above.

ah, okay! What about the FRST64.exe, though? I still can't open the program in Safe Mode even when I've tried selecting run as administrator. Or should I just open it in normal function?