(Haven't run the Kaspersky scan yet, because I need my computer and it makes more sense to run it overnight or sometime when that's all that's going on)
It still gets "attacked" (HTTP Tidserv request, says Norton) by c36996639.cn/ whenever I search something in Google (application path goes through Firefox.exe). Every so often (20, 30 minutes) a new tab opens, ads, searches or something, I'm not really sure because I try to close them as soon as they open. When the tab displays the URL (at least initially) it tends to have my last google search in there somewhere. For example, the last one I have is (if my last google search was "this is a test") (brackets aren't really there; [random numbers] is actually a67990067, in this example):
/?url=http://[random numbers].cn/[more random stuff]ref=http://bulkputty.org/key/[still more random stuff]=this+is+a+test
Sorry for if the description isn't clear, but that's what I mean by having the search in there.
Haven't tried Chrome, but I doubt it'll work.
I suspect the malware is using something with svchost, just because
1). some of the attacks are going through \DEVICE\HARDDISKVOLUME1\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SVCHOST.EXE
2). There are times when task manager has Svchost using half my CPU or more (though it's relatively uncommon) and
3). Maybe once or twice every few days (if I've left my comp running on overnight, an error message pops up saying there was an error in svchost.exe (don't know the exact message). If I hit Okay, to close the process, my computer becomes unresponsive, generally. I can still scroll web pages, for example, or close tabs, but I can't close or minimize Firefox, can't click the start menu or anything on the bottom bar, task manager doesn't really respond, etc.
In general, something is clearly "wrong" with it, but it's not crippling.
I have no idea if any of that helps.