BrantB
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Although I was curious, I purposely did not launch IE. You hadn’t instructed me to do so, and I didn’t want to mess anything up by jumping the gun. I’ve seen how frustrating it gets, in other posts, when people go ahead and do things on their own … and I believe the sticky specifically asks people to do what they’re told, and only what they’re told … and to basically just leave the system alone between steps. So, I was trying to respect that. 
I will launch IE now, do a little be of benign activity (just search for a few terms in Google or Bing), and then I’ll leave the system to idle for a bit - that’s when we usually start to see activity (if it is still going to happen).
After that, I’ll move on to carry out your ComboFix instructions. Speaking of which - does ComboFix require “Run As” (admin) … or should it be run in just the normal logon context?