P.S. thank you all for your help and time :)

Well chaps, I decided to go reset windows 10, after which bitsadmin stopped showing up and I wound up downloading and running GMER just for good measure. It didn't find anything that looked like a...

At this point, I'm contemplating restoring to factory settings. Is there any chance that this is a rootkit that might survive me doing so?

So I went ahead with the ADWcleaner. After restarting the computer I was greeted with this message which I had never seen before, which I've added as the first screenshot. Secondly, I'm still getting...

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I hate to start naming people off here like an assembly line, but I find myself in the same situation as tkrisz0403 in that my Command Prompt, accompanied by the exact same text as the former case,...