Download and run Combofix.exe from bleepingcomputer.com - best I’ve found for slitting malbot throats.
Download and install Glasswire - great background monitor that tells you what tried to go out the wire. Do the sleep thing and then see what it logged. You’ll find your culprit.
thanks I’ll check those out- with rollbackrx I can run things like those- find the culprit- do a revert which takes them off again, and fix the problem after the rollbackrx (I don’t like a lot of things installed or running in backgoround, but for diagnostics I do what I described above)
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