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Cleaned spyware off, but still being redirected to localhost

Tags: Microsoft, Windows XP, Home w/SP2, spyware problems
This computer was heavily infected after user uninstalled AV and never reinstalled a new version.  The main culprit was a version of Vista AV 2008 and Virtumonde.  I have gone through everything I usually do to clean these sorts of things up and I have everything gone as far as I can tell.  No processes running, no hooks in the shell, no registry entries that look suspicious(as far as I can tell), even did a repair install after cleanup.  But I am still being redirected to the localhost whenever I try to ping an AV or spyware cleaning site.  Yes, the hosts file is clean and I can't find an entry in the registry pointing to a different one.  I've even run an LSP fix but it doesn't make a difference either.  Something is embedded somewhere that I'm not looking.  Hopefully someone out there has seen this before and can point me in the right direction.

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Question Asked By: RDIII
Solution Provided By: jfrancis10
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