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I'd normally use
HijackThis as my first port of call as its very good at snooping out browser hijacks.
The only warning is, it can be quite powerful at finding hidden stuff so if youre unsure what youre doing, make use of the analysis tool on the page I thinked to, rather than just letting it auto-delete.
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Thanks for your reply Kitz and apologies for my delay in replying. The reason for the delay is just terror. I would best describe myself as a silver surfer and for me to mess with anything more technical than setting the time is, for me at least, a step too far. I did run hijackthis but actually didn't understand the log anyway. it all looked wrong to me!
I guess all I can do is stop using Chrome. Bit of a pain but there you go.
I do appreciate your bothering to reply however, but there are some people you can't help.
PS>>>>
After posting this reply I have now discovered that Firefox is also affected. Now it is getting serious. I'll run a scan with Kaspersky ans see what it finds, although it didn't spot the problem in the first place!