At least one of my home pc's is infected with "searchnet.blinkxcore.com". Beware that most online googled solutions are lengthy and many seem obviously wrong or malicious themselves.

Here is where I am seeing what I believe to be trusted help, "https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?/topic/157580-searchnetblinkxcorecom-keeps-on-popping-up-as-blocked/"

Tiger Direct technician that I trust says he tried everything and had to reformat pc's that were infected as most solutions caused more problems.

My (free) Malwarebytes scans showed that several system EXE files were issuing outbound requests to searchnet.blinkxcore.com with different external IP addresses. Affected files included dvdupgrd.exe, dllhost.exe, and NAPSTAT.EXE.

Examples:

66.45.56.109, searchnet.blinkxcore.com, 54920, Outbound, C:WindowsSysWOW64dvdupgrd.exe

195.2.241.167, 55149, Outbound, C:WindowsSysWOW64dllhost.exe

31.184.192.92, e9967a.com, 56776, Outbound, C:WindowsSysWOW64dllhost.exe

66.45.56.109, searchnet.blinkxcore.com, 60000, Outbound, C:WindowsSysWOW64NAPSTAT.EXE

Malwarebytes (free version) seems to be blocking the outbound requests now and the frequency it is seeing them mirrors the perceived lags and slowdowns I was getting.

Problem remains that the pc is still trying to hit these external sites that are clearly at least adware and probably malicious.

These were found and quarantined later same day:

PUP.Optional.AddinExpress.A, C:UsersJeffrey_StormDocumentsAdd-in Express, , [0143b6b0740855e1c46b8fceb053916f],

PUP.Optional.AddinExpress.A, C:UsersJeffrey_StormDocumentsAdd-in Expressadxregistrator.log, , [0143b6b0740855e1c46b8fceb053916f],

Will report back after finishing the proposed cleanupsteps on the above mentioned web site.