Ok buddy, what you have is a "Browser Hijacker". These typicaly take the form of either an exe, a dll or a BHO. Most spyware soft isn't capable of removing these little buggers. You need to google a prog called "HiJackThis". When you do a scan with it you will find MANY entries. But if you remove the wrong ones you may corrupt your OS.
Typical Hijackers look like this...
homepage=redir=searchassistant=blowme
or
dllhlp.dll
or
q.exe.
You'll also find entries like <pestpatrol-reboot once>. if you use pest patrol (and I do) this is a LEGIT entry and you do NOT want to remove it!
These "hijackers" are NOT viruses per se, and explains why many anti viri progs will not block them. Most viri enter your PC through e-mail attachments. Hijackers gain entry through your browser. You usually get them from visting free porn sites and MP3 sites.
As you can see, there are many DANGERS involved with trying to remove these bastrads. And even when using HijackThis you may need to use a prog like Registry Crawler to manually remove entries which keep coming back. There are also times when you need to boot into safe mode and use the MS search option to find something like "aaub.dll" and remove it.
At this point in time I suggest you copy ALL of your data files (jpgs,mp3s etc) to CDr and get ready to do a clean install. Once you backup all your data, you should then download and install EVERY freeware "spy" progs you can find. For starters google...
Adaware
Spybot
HiJackThis
Adaware offers a FREE "basic" version. The other 2 are FREE all the time. Just remeber, when you run "hijack" it will show ALL browser helpers and asociated progs. Many of these are LEGIT! It will show you the details and it's up to you to decide which files to delete.
BACKUP YOUR DATA and GOOD LUCK!
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