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Okay, thanks for your help. What do you think caused those 'black screen with only mouse cursor working' crashes? Have you ever heard of that before? ...and when I install emsisoft AV, is it okay to install apps like OS Armor and VoodDoo shield?

Hi Kevin, First of all, thanks for helping me! I've run FRST with the custom txt file you gave me and attached the logs. The computer seems to be running fine, however it seemed fine before as well. Sophos was still in its 30 day trial when the computer 'crashed'. I wanted to give emsisoft AV a go, but didn't want another black screen of death. So I've held off installing any other security software other than Windows Defender for now... Fixlog.txt

Hi There! In the interest of keeping this short and to the point, I believe I have some sort of persistent malware / rootkit / keylogger, which apparently, is able to survive a clean format and installation of Windows 10. Right now, I have a relatively clean installation (as far as I can ascertain) of Windows 10 Home 64bt, along with some minimal software: Chromium based Edge Browser Office 365 OneDrive Windows Defender I've attached the Emsisoft Rescue Kit and Farbar Recovery Scan logs per the instructions. --- Below is the, not so short, possi