Alot depends on where you go. Your link hijack is a common type of virus to get your business. It is not unlike a homepage hijack that some porn places do. I had the misfortune of clicking on a link in ICQ chat once long ago, that had a title I thought was from a friend. It hijacked my homepage to go to a porn site every time I turned on the computer. My son walked me thru removing it, thru Explorer...by reading the file names and deleting the culprit.

The new Malware software does the same thing. You just have to scan often. We do 3 scans every weekend here. Malware, Adaware and Avast antivirus. Most of the time they find just cookies and we delete them. But lately I've been getting hits on "trojans" when I go to Yahoo mail. This week I've had two blocked by Avast.

I am very careful where I go now on the net. I don't search blindly and I won't click a link that is not familiar to me. This is the only way to avoid infection. Those nasties are everywhere now!