The problem from Norton it is ranked to low. I use Ccleaner which got a ranking of 9.5 and system mechanic which got a 9 where norton got a 4 those two work together reasonably well. If spybot and Malware don't work together then I will use your advice, Instead of microsoft security essentials or windows defender I use macafee. With this I cleaned my system and it seems to be working right now.

Windows has never been "idiot proof", there has always been viruses and malicious software ever since the internet was created. That's why security companies like Norton and McAfee have become multi-million dollar corporations. It's up to the user to be aware and to take precautions that prevent these sorts of things from getting into their systems. I have been hanging around the net since the very early days, and I think in all that time I've only been hit by 2 viruses, once that I recall because of a porn site I visited, and have never had any sort of adware issues. That's because I pay attention to what goes on my system and take some very basic precautions. You can't blame Windows for your own carelessness, the fault is entirely with you.

admiralWillyWilber

Looks like you are not clean of stuff... as the text you quoted is not part of what is written above.

Good luck in your cleaning process, as you are not completely clean yet. You may have to take some drastic measures to remove these things it appears.

I agree it appears a BHO is also installed, and god knows what else that likely attempted to inject the img tag into the URL.

I believe I recommended this before but you're likelyi going to have to nuke the computer from orbit and format the thing. It looks unsalvagable.

Just install Microsoft Security Essentials first before ANYTHING ELSE once you reformat.

I also use Firefox on Windows 8 and I did run into a problem with adware and browser hijackers. It took me about a month before I decided I couldn't repair it with Malwarebytes and decided to do a "Windows Refresh". This refresh is NOT a hard drive reformat. It preserved my personal files in the "my documents" folder and its subfolders. It did delete Firefox and Thunderbird, and all of the email I had archived to my hard drive, and every application I had installed from CD or over the net.

Since a reformat of the hard drive is so hard on your private files I think it best to try a "Refresh" before a full reformat.

I feel confident that the problem I ran into was not because of Firefox, but because of some freeware I installed, perhaps even something that was additionally and optionally installable from something I wanted to install.

You have to be very careful about your responses to queries during installation of apps, and you have to be very careful about the reliability of those websites offering freeware.