Actually I wish I got it from surfing porn as that would be far less stupid then how I actually did get it.
I had McAfee which worked fine for months and months. However I had an automatic update that somehow just trashed my computer and made my email program go all wonky. Anyway after long hours both in technical chat online and via the phone McAfee decided that their update didn't mess up my computer, I still believe it did. Anyway being a complete and total dumba$$ I just shut McAfee completely down, decided it was $hit and I would get something else.....when I got around to it. Of course I took my good old time and ran around the net for weeks having forgotten all about my raw dog status and well I don't know if it was the buffy/spike fan fiction, game sites my kids frequent, or what but I got a whole host of $hit. Knowing my husband would freak out I just choose to handle it on my own. At this point I didn't have a browser hijacking virus. But I did install a new security program, firewall, ect and then DOWNLOADED and ran every virus scan known to man just to be safe. And here's the kicker I think running all those scans was what did me in because I'm fairly certain that one of those scans was the culprit and it was a bogus scan that actually gave me the killer of all viruses. I got something called the Win 32 Conhook.b and then a virtumonde thing and after that all hell broke loose and I couldn't even go online without having the browser redirect me to all kinds of weird $hit. I use mozilla but it was earthlink that kept popping up ads and $hit.
Eventually I had to take it all to my man, who yelled at me like I was a four year old child, and then booted and nuked the entire system. Now I'm all clean and virginal again.
So, anyway, don't feel so bad Navy. The only reason I didn't click on the link in that PM is that I noticed the person was banned. Had I gotten it prior to said person being banned I probably would have thought, "Ew this person has noticed how wonderful and crafty I am and they want MY opinion..." then I'd surely have clicked away like a dumba$$.