Search engine hijack

[ebsims]

I have been infected by a virus/malware that has removed my Google toolbar. It will not allow me to re install it. Addtionally my favorites for myInternet browser IE 8 have disappeared. I am running Windows 7 with System Guard and Iolo Shield. I have run a complete deep scan and nothing was found. I also scanned with Viper and System Mechanic. Nothing was found. I am running ver.1.50.1.1100 Malwarebytes. In my program it says I have downloaded the updates through 6/2/11 ver. 6757, but when I tried update yesterday, it said it failed, so I am not sure. When I use Yahoo search engine it give me the proper choices the first search, but if I click on any of the suggested links I get various pages such as YellowPages with ads and nothing relevent to my original search. In trying to restore to a pervious state with MS restore, it fails.

[noknojon]

Hello ebsims and welcome -

Please read and follow the instructions listed below for help with your problem -

OPTION 1

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