joey...

I know exactly how you feel. I recently had the same thing happening to me when I realized I must of downloads sometype of spyware or adware without really knowing I did it.

I changed all my security levels and deleted cookies and still had the same problem. A friend told me about Spy Sweeper from Webroot I tried several different programs and nothing worked until I tried this one. In a minute I found I downloaded an ad transponder that was the culprit and it cleaned it off the system... I highly recommend it.

http://www.webroot.com/wb/downloads/index.php

The free version works but they look for you to subsrcibe to get the updated definitions. I think it's worth it!

Hope this helps!

Gary-Alan