Then I run Malwarebytes manually every now and then in case something sneaks through, other than cookies I never pick anything up with either program.
a great little program for cookies is cookie wall by analogue x- very small program- hardly any resources used, and it has choices for ‘keep’, never keep’, and a ‘holding pen’ where all the other cookies are seen for easy deletion- I used to use it, but adfter the reinstall of iwndows I haven’t put it back o nagain- but will- makes it super easy to sort the cookies I want to keep (like for this site, Cnet, PCtech site etc-
I think the fix has worked that you suggested- Family members were In the room with the computer in sleep mode for a couple hours, I asked them to listen and watch to see if it would start or not, and they said it didn’t- I’ll know more tonight when I can watch it myself - but it looks like maybe the issue I was having is fixed- If so I’ll defiantely run that Norton’s fix to prevent further issues-
I am happy to report that thanks to this_ol_patriot’s suggestion, The problem seems to be resolved- I have not had any wake events logged other than when I click the keyboard to wake my computer from sleep as it normally is supposed to do
It was the Norton Internet Security that was causing a wake event which was triggered by something called Wake Source: Timer - Task Scheduler will execute \Remediation\AntimalwareMigrationTask task.
Once I looked this up I found a thread on Norton’s site which showed how to disable this task scheduled event-
It appears that Norton’s is aware of the problem and working on a fix for hteir next update, so I’ll probably just wait until then for the fix- in the meantime I’ll just manually keep disabling the task scheduled events-
Thank you to all who weighed in- and a special thanks to patriot for pointing out what the problem likely was