Hidden process causing reboot fail.

Hello everybody. I have been messing with this problem all week. There appears to be no real way to key word it so as to find others with this problem - and - thus, a solution.

A standard Windows shut down or reboot via the GUI will fail because a three character program/process will need forced closed. The name for this program is always different (eg: b28, 35c, f78, c08, a14, and so on).

This is not normal behavior. I have ran AVG, MS Security Essentials, Malwarebytes Anti-malware and Anti Root Kit Beta and Kaspersky TDSS Killer to no avail.

The program is hidden and I can not find it in the process list of task mgr, computer management or search by name for the file with hidden file search on.

The only time the computer rebooted without forcing this process down was when I rebooted Kaspersky TDSS Killer to find loaded modules but it took a while. It also took three tries to get Kaspersky to load this way, but when it did, it found nothing.

I prefer to get to the bottom of things as opposed to using system restore - else I never learn new and important information. This is the first time I have been unable to fix a windows problem since Windows 3.11.

I am sure I am not the only person with this problem. Has anybody here heard of something like this?

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