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Boggin:
Do you have MBAM/Settings/Detection and Protection set to treat PuPs and PuMs as malware ?

What does Task Manager/Performance give for your CPU usage ?

Which browser are you using ?

Jethro Bodine:
Sorry about the delay in replying .

I would ask those very same questions myself .....
... to answer :-

Yes to the first .
< 2% cpu use with FF running and 10 or more open tabs.

I'm a regular user of Process Hacker , Dependency Walker etc so I've already been down that route.

I have one particular app I'm suspicious of but I'll wait for it's regular scheduled run later in the week
rather than force the issue now..

Thanks for the suggestions BTW  :)

Boggin:
Intermittent problems are the worse to nail down but at least you have your eye on at least one possible culprit.

Process Explorer is also a handy program to have as you can see what's running and who it belongs to and with VirusTotal enabled on it, also if it's suspect.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processexplorer.aspx

Click on Options and ensure Verify Signature is checked then hover over VirusTotal.com and check its box.

Its ratings should all be in blue but if any have a highish numerator in red then they would be suspect.

It can give some with just 1 or 2/50 but as long as you know what they are, they are usually nothing to worry about.

Julian:
tech toolbench has a system monitor and also netstat you can adjust the windows to refresh how ever many seconds you would like too. But to be honest the only thing you can do at the moment is make sure your do not have any pup or pum on your system. If you come up with being clean then I would try to recreate the situation's and let it monitor in the background then look at the stats.  :undecided:

Jethro Bodine:
That's pretty much my intended strategy at this point.
Netstat is a long-time favorite of mine , and I'm certain there is no PUP stuff on my system ....
... I am fanatically opposed to all of that garbage :)

I originally posted because I'd hoped that someone knew of a network traffic log-file that I could look at .
But I've never heard of such a log , so I was fairly certain that it would be a long shot :)

As I mentioned earlier , it's doesn't seem right to name my main suspect without any proof.
I'm going to be keeping a sharp eye out for it happening again and I will pin it down  , and then post back here .

In the meantime , many thanks to all for the suggestions !

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