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Hijacked and spywarequake

I have a hijacker that spybot, ad-aware and norton cannot find. it has a little icon that is in my system tray, and it changes from a circle with a slash, to a green thing. it also has a popup window that takes me to spywarequake homepage, which is on my block list. I also have had my home page changed to http://www.systemuptodate.net/

any thought on this?
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have you tried restoring your computer to any previous restore point.(When you did not had this spyware installed.)

Run your pc in safe mode and try and restore it.
Have you tried Windows Defender? It might be able to pick this up for you.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

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Try the instructions at this link:

 http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?showtopic=532&pid=2091&st=0&#entry2091

(this link as posted by blue-zee at this page:

 https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21868024/Hijacked-by-systemuptodate-net.html

 you may want to monitor that thread since the problem is very similar).