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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1778392" data-attributes="member: 5100">I had something similar happen to me a few months back.  I "oopsed" and turned off my firewall.  Did a seach on something music related (band info, not warez, even) and got slammed by all the spyware in the universe, pretty blatantly so.  Even after running several ad-aware-type things, I still had a persistent redirect that they couldn't detect.  Ended up deciding that I could reformat and rebuild faster than I could reliably track down the problem. Wish I had better input for you.  My advice is to set a time limit for putzing with the issue and if you cross it, cut your losses and rebuild.  This assumes you're savvy enough that rebuilding is more of an annoyance than an ordeal.</blockquote>