How am I supposed to get help with a browser hijacker when I cannot contact no one and every single option in the knowlege base concerning this doesn't work?

I have some spyware on my system that neither my malaware bytes, comodo antivirus, spybot search and destroy, and a few others I've tried, can detect. The piece of spyware is a browser hijacker that keeps hijacking my firefox homepage and nothing I can do will get rid of it.
the problem only happens in firefox and no other browser is affected. basically my homepage gets changed to the following:
http://www.ggle.org.uk/index.php?hp=1&OVKWID=firefox
Yes there are numerous options about this in the support section but none of them work. I have tried everything and I do mean everything and each time I restart firefox the bloody thing comes back. I've reset the pc - works until you close down the browser and restart it. I've gone into my profiles, i.e. user/AppData/Mozilla/firefox and deleted the .js files, parent.lock files - comes back on firefox restart. I've searched the registry the best I can. I have even put an entry into the Hosts file in syst32 and that has afforded me partial success in that I now get a 404 instead of the pesky and irritating jaamla search page. I have even gone into the About:config settings and wiped the url but no matter what I do it always comes back on restart and it's only with firefox.
This is something that firefox needs to look into and not assume that just because there are a few answers in the support section that they all work, because all of the options appear to work until firefox is restarted.
It even comes back after a complete uninstall and wipe - I am at a loss at what to do and where to go next. Please help!

I think the next step is to use Windows 7's auditing feature to figure out what processes are touching the file other than firefox.exe.
This is somewhat arduous to set up, but here's what I did. I have Win 7 Pro and I don't know whether this works on other versions.
(1) Open the Event Viewer to the Security log
Start menu > Control Panel > System and Security category > Administrative Tools
This should launch a folder of shortcuts. Double-click Event Viewer. If Windows objects, you may need to right-click> Run as Administrator.
In the left pane of the Event Viewer, click Security.
(2) Enable object auditing
In the Administrative Tools folder, double-click Local Security Policy (or right-click > Run as Administrator).
In the left pane, expand Local Policies and click Audit Policy.
In the right pane, double-click Audit object access and turn on both success and failure and OK the change. (screen shot attached)
(3) Enable auditing on prefs.js
Right-click your prefs.js file > Properties, click the Security tab, then the Advanced button. In the Advanced Security Settings dialog, click the Audit tab, then the Continue button. (screen shot attached)
Click the Add button and type Everyone, then click Check Names. After you click OK, you should get a dialog with numerous checkboxes. Clicking the Full Control box for each column should select everything. Then OK that. (screen shot attached)
(4) Test
Change a preference in Firefox that updates prefs.js (for example, you can change your home page). Then when you switch over to the Event Viewer, you can click Refresh on the right side (or choose a different category such as Application and then Security again to refresh the list), and you should find a listing in the File System task category for "a handle to the object was requested" for prefs.js, showing firefox.exe to be the active process. (screen shot attached)
(5) Assuming the test works, exit Firefox and watch for any other process touching the file.
When you're through, you probably want to turn this all off again, since it does use cycles in the background.

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