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Corrupted/possible virus with explorer.exe, unable to search or Google

Asked by cosecant in Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus

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My computer has somehow been contracted with a virus or spyware of some sort and it's becoming a large issue.  What happens is that off a fresh restart, and opening Firefox or IE, I am spammed with popup ads and I am also unable to search or connect to various websites.  The status bar at the bottom will hang and say 'Waiting for www.google.ca....' and will never load the page.  I'm sure it's not a connection problem or any network settings, and I'm sure the webserver is not down because I can connect to it on a separate computer.
I found a really weird trick that bypasses this error and I think is the ultimate cause of my problem.  If I CTRL ALT DEL and end my 'explorer.exe' process, all of my connection problems are fixed and I am able to connect to webpages such as EE, Google, etc.  However, as soon as I open a new explorer (done by CTRL ALT DEL, File New Task (Run...), type in 'explorer' I get these barrage of quick loading ms-dos type windows that fly by really quickly and the problem appears again.  I'm currently typing this having cancelled explorer.exe
I've had Norton Antivirus installed for a long time now, and I've also had Adaware/adwatch but those seem to be useless and ineffective.  I've tried Spybot Search & Destroy and that detected some minor problems but didn't change a single thing.  I'm not sure what I can do, any suggestions?Start Free Trial
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Tags: Microsoft, Windows, XP SP2, Virus/spyware with explorer.exe
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