Thanks Nihil

I will take this into account if I decide to purchase another AV off the shelf.

Update, I ran in both normal and safemode; Adware, Spybot, Spyhunter, Hijack this, and Webroots Spy Sweeper. All of these apps found cookies. However Spy Sweeper found reminents of bargin buddy and my search bar. Only registry enteries though. Unrelated I think. Those two items came complimentary of a live weather bug my wifey downloaded. No big deal though. I just neutered the install but apparently missed a few registry keys.

SFC/scannow ran without any findings.

Off to kill Norton. Die Norton Die

MUAHAHAAH