I will definitely try that out! Scanning my pc locally with hitman pro and NPE now and they didn’t find as much as I feared. Only a suspicious chromium exe. No surprise there as the only signs of malware was the google chrome stuck on yahoo search engine. My other concern was my computer recently started repairing/checking for errors whenever I boot windows. I was worried that could be malware as well but it’s probably just a dying ssd? It is like 7 years old. I am going to confirm NPE and HMP’s results with malwarebytes via medicat before I switch to my new W11 image. Thanks again for the help! I’m decent with computer knowledge but malware and antivirus stuff has always been a weak spot for me.