I can't get rid of browser malware?

Okay, so, this is a big problem I've been having all day, and only today. Suddenly, as I was browsing, I started getting ads. I thought it was because my adblocker was disabled. I re-enabled it, and suddenly, I still have ads. So I thought, hey, maybe it just isn't working, so I restarted Firefox (to be clear, this happens in Chrome, as well). Still there.
I get ads on websites that have never had ads before. These ads aren't on every website. Random keywords will highlight, and if you hover, they bring up ads. I also have, suddenly, a bar underneath my bookmarks bar that says "Search on Bing". Sometimes, when I click links, I get redirected, kind of like an adfly link is, and I can click forwards to my link via an arrow in the upper right hand corner. As you can imagine, these problems are terribly annoying.
The problem comes when I explain what I've done so far:
-I've checked my programs, nothing suspicious.
-No new, unwanted extensions.
-I've run Norton, Malwarebytes, and Adwcleaner, all of which detected things and removed them.
-I can't find anything in the registry that shows up as an issue.
-I've cleared out all of my files several times.
-I haven't downloaded much, recently. The problem started today. The only thing I downloaded was an update to a game, Cubic Castles, from http://cubiccastles.com (I have not tried uninstalling this, as it is supposedly a safe file; my friends and I have /all/ downloaded this file at the exact same time, I'm the only person with issues)
-I've got nothing going on in BitTorrent, and I've cleared out any unnecessary files sitting around on my desktop and such.
-I've reset FireFox, not Chrome. It doesn't sound like a browser problem.
-I believe that when I signed back into FireFox, is when it happened again, as I /did/ reset everything, I cleared the registry. It seemed clean, and then it popped back up again. I'm not sure if syncing my information is what triggered it.
This has to be the most frustrating thing to happen to me. Oh, and I might have you know that when I ran SpyHunter 4, which you apparently have to pay for, I had 1852 threats. Which I've hopefully removed. However, I saw /nothing/ about OffersWizard, and I haven't seen anything on my computer about it except on the ads that have shown up. I'm desperate here. It's making it impossible to use the web, and I'm paranoid it's going to receive my information and hack my accounts; I've had this happen on several occasions.
Is there any other way to get rid of this thing? Should I try a restore point? I'm at the end of my rope, and I can't take this any longer. Please, help me!

Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
All these programs have free versions.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
*Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
*AdwCleaner: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml
*SuperAntispyware: http://www.superantispyware.com/
*Microsoft Safety Scanner: http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx
*Windows Defender: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-defender
*Spybot Search & Destroy: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
*Kasperky Free Security Scan: http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
*Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller: http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
See also:
*"Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked

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