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  1. Okay, I spent some time just opening various websites in both Chrome and Firefox, cleaning out cookies and cache intermittently. I did this both on my the Win7 system experiencing symptoms as well as on another system running Linux. Over the course of about 90-minutes I was only kicked to the fake Java update page once (again at a different URL). This happened on the Win7 system, right at the beginning, after I first cleared Chrome's browser cache and cookies. It happened when I navigated, again, to The Onion with the fake Java page popping up after the page took some time to load. Something I hadn't considered previously was the fact that The Onion is one of the few websites on which I typically leave Adblock disabled (since it interferes with video playback), so I suppose it is possible that one of the advertisements on The Onion is compromised. However, because I suspected this, I repeatedly cleared cache/cookies and opened The Onion on both systems. I also opened up The Onion in about 20 separate tabs in Chrome on both systems and let them auto-refresh for over 30 minutes. Unfortunately, none of them re-directed to the fake Java update during that time. In fact, to my recollection, I've never seen the fake Java update pop-up on the Linux system at all, in spite of browsing all the same websites on it using the same browser (Chrome).
  2. As a test, I opened up my usual set of bookmarks. After about 10-15 seconds after opening of http://www.theonion.com/, it threw me to the fake Java update page, again with a different URL than the last time. I have attached a screenshot.
  3. Okay, router has been reset to factory defaults. Fixlog is attached. Fixlog.txt
  4. I have attached the requested logs. Thank you for you help. FRST.txt Addition.txt
  5. For about month now while browsing the web in Chrome I have been randomly (about 2-3 times per week or so) been getting thrown to a new tab with a suspicious webpage telling me I need to update Flash or Java and prompting me to download a "download manager" that is quite obviously adware. For the life of me, I cannot track down the source of these pop-ups. This has occurred when browsing perfectly legitimate websites including The New York Times, The Onion, and Reddit, so I am assuming the source is installed on my computer somewhere. I have run: Malewarebytes Super Anti-Spyware Spybot S&D MS Security Essentials I've attached a screenshot of the page it sent me to today, but the URL always seems to be different. The "uninstall" link you see leads to a set of completely generic uninstall instructions for Windows ("Go to Programs & Features" -> "Select software" -> "Click Ok") but nowhere is the name of the software specified. In fact, nothing out of the ordinary appears in Programs & Features at all and certainly nothing from "softwarehelp.check-live.com" or anything similar What should my next step be? hijackthis.log also attached. hijackthis.log
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