Browser drags with ads. pdf link fails.

web sites are filled with adds, mouse has little or very delayed response, clicking on link to pdf file (as in a statement) fails with error message indicating web issue, but all web sites have same problem. Either there is a virus infection or some obscure setting is way off. Spent HOURS trying to trblshoot. Ran Norton scans and power clean. No improvement. This is all happening in VISTA home premium. This is not happening on a macbook with same web sites.

attached images. Each time I load a web page (including this one) I have no control until the malware or whatever embeds links into the page, normally words that are double-underlined, also videos. Once those are in place, I can scroll the page and use my mouse to select items.

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