The redirecting sounds familiar to a certain malware that would create in the root directory of any drive or removable drive a folder called resycled

it would appear as

./resycled
inside there would be
./resycled/autorun.ini

if you deleted it would respwawn upon reboot you had to go into the command prompt and change it's attrib settings then use the search feature to search for the files/folders and delete 'em that way.

also using combo fix afterwards would delete the remainder bits left around the system.