Strange Virus Through MSN/ Hotmail

I spent 5 hours the other evening trying to fix a 'connectivity' issue on a friends laptop, and finally figured out it was a hijacker/virus. I've run AVG, eTrust, Norton, Ad-Aware & Spybot & none of them have found it. In the interim, my friend used MY computer and I'm getting the same message, although not all of the same issues. On the laptop, it doesnt let you log into any email hosts (yahoo, hotmail) or messenger. On my desktop, i'm just getting a message alert that my system is infected & i should use a certain website (it hasnt popped up in 5 hours & I didnt write it down) to clean my system. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I just wiped out windows 2 days ago & don't want to do it again.

 

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