actually I found a solution possible .. try this (from a user at a google help site)
-murph
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<input style="opacity: 0; height: 1px; width: 1px; z-index: -1; overflow: hidden; position: absolute;" role="presentation" tabindex="-1" type="text">I had almost the exact same problem today and none of my anti-spyware programs (SpyBot, AdAware, MalwareBytes, Housecall) could fix it. Fortunately, I found the solution on another board. As a little bit of background, viruses sometimes will alter your "hosts" file, which is basically a file that controls the redirecting for your browsers (specifically, this file makes it faster for your computer to convert URLs into the relevant IP addresses by having a shortcut list of IP addresses instead of having to look them up when you type in the URL).
Anyway, enough background, here's what you need to do to fix:
(1) Click START > RUN > and type in "C:\windows\system32\drivers\<wbr>etc\hosts"
(2) When prompted, open the HOSTS file in either Notepad or Wordpad
(3) Delete all the lines of IP addresses in the text document except for "127.0.0.1 localhost".
If you find several lines of IP numbers other than localhost in your hosts file, then this is almost definitely your problem and will be fixed right away. If not, then this probably isn't the issue, but it's worth a look.
Let me know how it goes -- best of luck!