I have read this thread very carefully, including all posts by you and by RockMilk. I researched all programs and references in the results you posted, as well as some of the symptoms you including in your OP. I would concur with everything Rock has suggested, and might add here a suggestion that you may already be aware of. I would suggest that it is generally a very bad idea to install ANY toolbars into your browser, but some of these are often really bad program, and include malware. I found in your posts several toolbars that have a very large number poor ratings from the security community.
Next (and perhaps much worse), is the reference in your OP that you ran "advanced spyware" on this computer. I would like to point out that I've had two occasions in the past when a program that was attempting to convince me that it was good and helping me (for ex., that it was "anti-malware", designed to find and remove malware), was actually far worse than any other malware I had ever come across. In both of those cases, I spent many many hours, and even dozens of posts in some of the best forums attempting to repair those computers, and in the end, in BOTH cases, I just wound up formatting and reinstalling from scratch or backup.
I am very curious about the reference that RockMilk posted about some rule that he is not allowed to tell you certain things in this forum, which might help you (because those types of assistance should be posted in another forum topic/area). I am unaware of those rules, and thus I think I need to find the rules he is talking about and read up on them before I violate those rules myself (I am really new to this community). However, I will at least provide you this one (possibly VERY useful) link, which may shed light upon my second concern I've pointed out in this post, and end on the note that I can only concur with RockMilk and will have to find and read the rules before I get into this deeper.
Best Regards,
Paul
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