Once again I owe many thanks to you, magna86. I ran Malwarebytes and although it took over three hours to complete, it flagged over forty items. Most of these were so called “PUPs” which I legitimately use in my work, but it also found several instances of Trojan.VBKrypt and deleted them all.

As a point of interest I was going to see if Avast had flagged these same files, but after searching for about a half hour I could find no reference telling me where Avast puts scan logs. There are plenty of references to their existence and how long they are kept, but even the help file only explains what they are, nothing on how you might see them.

At any rate my computer is probably cleaner now than it was when it was new. You’ve been a great help throughout–I hate to think how long it might have taken me to get through all of this on my own.

Best regards,
JG