Pardon my intrusion one last time. I have stopped the outgoing connection attempts from “explorer.exe” on port 6881 now by removing these files


C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\BingDesktop\BingCore\BingDesktopOverlays.dll
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\BingDesktop\BingCore\BingDesktopCore.dll

As far as I know, I do not have BingDesktop installed, so I don’t know why they were there. I was unable to remove them until I rebooted into recovery mode command prompt (see Advanced Startup Options).

I’ve also had this report from RogueKiller previously:


¤¤¤ Bad processes : 1 ¤¤¤
[SUSP PATH][DLL] explorer.exe -- C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\BingDesktop\BingCore\BingDesktopOverlays.dll [x] -> UNLOADED
[SUSP PATH][DLL] explorer.exe -- C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\BingDesktop\BingCore\BingDesktopCore.dll [x] -> UNLOADED

I hope this helps.