Right its one of those viruses which redirects my internet explorer to either nothing or a randow page.

I havent installed or ran anything on here for a while so im stumped how its got on my pc.

If i go to google, type anything in (tested it with 'BBC' and click on one of the results (first one being www.bbc.co.uk) it pauses, then jumpes thru aboute 4 blank websites and then either stops on a blank one or last time it was some health page.

i have ran my avg and adaware and nothing comes up. i have also ran task manager to see if my running processes have doubled and it looks fine.

Any help?

looks like a browser hijack

First thing to do is download HijackThis ( http://www.merijn.org/programs.php ) run it it should should list anything that has been altered since the original windows install. ------ it will be a long list, latest items will be at the bottom so start looking right at the end.

If that dosen't work get back to us.

You could also try Firefox http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/

Had a similar issue on my work laptop recently and our IT guy advised me to try this tool first.

http://siri.urz.free.fr/Fix/SmitfraudFix_En.php

It is a spyware/adware removal tool which deals with a large number of infections of this type. It's free and very simple to use so has to be worth a try.

HTH
Nick

I use bullguard and since getting it 4 years of no trouble a all
http://www.bullguard.com/