Have Windows XP SP2 with IE6(not sure about IE7 right now) and I have a problem that a friend is too embarassed to ask about so I am here in his stead. Says that he has fully updated anti-virus, firewall, spyware scanners, etc. installed on his system. When he looks at adult thumbnail sites he usually clicks on the link for the pic and it would go right to it. The problem now is that when he clicks on thumbnails to correspond to a few certain sites that never had a problem before, now the link goes to url’s like spyware-micro.com/search and other url’s that basically take him to either another thumbnail site that may be legit, but it just leads to more and more links. When he tries to close the window, the next open window then switches to the spyware-micro search again or another adult search url. The crazy thing is that sometimes a thumbnail site will not come up at all, but instead it will go to Google search page with search results usually centering around what time of adult material he was looking for(i.e. mature, fetish, etc.). CRAZY! This made no sense to me at all until I saw it happen with my own eyes yesterday! The even crazier thing is it does not do it for all links. 75-80% of them go where they are supposed to, but those certain links like like pornmeg.com and karaxxx.com go to the search thing or the google thing. Also, if you take the url address of the pic or video you were supposed to go to and plug it into Google to search for it, nothing comes up. Like I said in the beginning, it’s not quite a browser hijack since the homepage is fine and it only does it when the clip or pic is linked to a few common sites he visits. Any clue as to what can be done. Ran Registry Mechanic and fixed all problems, yet still issue. Tried to completely block all functions of the spyware-micro.com url with Kerio firewall, but still does what it wants. Does he have to loose everything and re-install IE or entire OS? Don’t understand how anti-virus and spyware scans can do nothing to fix it. Even downloaded BHO Demon and still happened. Did not even show up in BHO Demon. Tried using tea-time protection from Spybot, completely locked it down with total protection, DOES NOT MATTER! HELP! Please Help!