Well, I was stupid and desperate enough to try downloading an executable off of Limewire.
I thought I deleted whatever it as because the original symptoms haven't come back. The next day I get on my computer and have plenty of wonderful error messages, I'm getting pop-ups in Firefox and IE likes to open all by itself now, I installed Firefox Beta and get pop-ups in that too. So its 3 different browsers all teaming up against me. I look in my C: root and WINDOWS file and find a wonderful collection of new files. I delete them all, check my startup list and delete everything new and its containing folder. I'm doing good this far.
I go into safe mode and delete all the folders that weren't deleted. Then I run S&D, Ewido, Ad-Aware and Windows Malicious Software Remover.
All find and delete some files and I think I'm done. I get back into normal Windows and I still have some those pop-ups that I love and not a single suspicious process or error message. So I've turned to you lovely people to save me.
All steps were followed and HJT log is attached.
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