I had an annoying google redirect problem - redirecting to stopzilla, ebay, youtube etc on windows vista. I ran some anti virus and spyware scans (norton, adaware, S&D, malwarebytes etc) but couldn't find anything. I upgraded to windows 7 ultimate full retail version downloaded from microsoft MSDN, but the virus remained. I performed a new, clean install of windows 7, but the virus remained. i thought perhaps it was lurking somewhere in the boot partition. I put the windows 7 install on a flash drive, clicked on repair and formatted the C: drive from the DOS prompt and installed 7 on a clean, formatted partition, but the virus remains. It is not a dodgy version of 7. I downloaded it from MSDN. The only thing I can think of now is that something happened when i extracted and burnt the .iso. i used magiciso to burn the disc and to image the flash drive. has anyone heard of this happening before? I don't mind reinstalling Windows 7, but what else can I do to avoid the virus this time?

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I ran avira and fsecure from the list and I still have the virus. anyone else got any ideas?

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