Hey guys,
So it's been a little over a week, and ever since Computer Updater was taken off my computer I haven't encountered any internet or shutdown problems at all. It looks like I can tentatively say that this program was the cause of the issue.
Needless to say, while I can't tell for sure if the program was actually malicious or not, if you're having the same issues as I did and you have this program on your computer, get rid of it! It certainly wasn't doing it's supposed job at any rate.
So I'll mark this problem as solved for now. Thanks very much for the help guys! I would never have known to check which programs were running on startup and what was causing the issue without you!
So it's been a little over a week, and ever since Computer Updater was taken off my computer I haven't encountered any internet or shutdown problems at all. It looks like I can tentatively say that this program was the cause of the issue.
Needless to say, while I can't tell for sure if the program was actually malicious or not, if you're having the same issues as I did and you have this program on your computer, get rid of it! It certainly wasn't doing it's supposed job at any rate.
So I'll mark this problem as solved for now. Thanks very much for the help guys! I would never have known to check which programs were running on startup and what was causing the issue without you!