Todd-
This happened to me about 1 month ago while using photobucket. I am completely safe, have Norton antivirus always activated, have a back-up virus program, and both incoming and outgoing firewalls. Well, somehow, something got through all of this. I forget the exact "virus" I got but it was EXACTLY as you describe - kept taking over and trying to get me to purchase a software program to kill the virus. After a day of troubleshooting with Norton and my other antivirus provider, the virus actually caused my computer to crash by modifying certain files. I had to reformat the computer to get it to work again. However, the next day, I ordered a Macbook Pro. I'm done with PC's forever....
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