Mac OSX 10.6.8 web browsing hijacked

I seem to have contracted some sort of trojan or malware, or have some sort of DNS changer that I inadvertently installed... or somehow got on my system.
When browsing in any browser (i have used Safari, Chrome, and Firefox), i am often redirected to a chinese advertisement site (should be too suprising, as Ilive in China). At first, i thought it was the ISP that was redirecting, but after having experienced this issue over the past week at numerous locations, i'm pretty sure my machine has a problem that need to be figured out.
I have tried MacScan and DNSchanger removal tool. I have tried dumping the cash in the terminal. I have deleated my flash cookies and all browsing histlry/cache files. I've tried a few other things that I thought might work as I found them on older posts for similar issues. None of these have resolved the issue.
The only thing i can think that may have caused it is i was recently staying at a hotel and having issue with their internet. They sent an "IT" guy to fix it and he made some changes to the network settings (i wasn't paying close enough atention to what he was doing).... in the end, the internet never worked at that hotel and from that point forward, i've had this problem. I can't say there is cause and effect with that, but corrolation for sure.
The site i'm being directed to is: nfdnserror5.wo.com.cn:8080/issueunziped/baidunf120718/index1.jsp?sf=&UserUrl=ww w.facebook.com
I'm runing a MacBook pro 13"
Mac OSX 10.6.8
All my browsers are up to date.
Any ideas? Am I forgetting any important details?

Hi all,
I am living in China and getting the same thing. Its very recent but it seems ChinaUnicom are trying to takover Google, BBC, NYT and other URL's and point you to their own web services (of course fully supported by the Chinese Government). Behaviour is very sporadic, sometimes Chrome, but mostly Firefox. I have checked host files, dns, everything and the only way to stop it is to delete all cookies and history from the browser after infection and restart. Its a total pain as I have the Google double sign in system turned on and I have to re-authenticate twice to get into my Gmail.
I also have the greyed out DNS entries but they are legit servers - Google 8.8.8.8 and our company one. Maybe they are taking over the google 8.8.8.8 in the Great firewall of China? However once infected and I am in my office (has a tunnel throught the Chinese Firewall) I still get the re-direct and from reading this thread users returning to the USA still are infected so it can not be the GFC!
The thing that makes me think its not DNS is, on the same system I can have it happen in Firefox but not Chrome at the same time, unless the cookies can somehow override DNS.
I can also see that a site actually begins to load and then sometime through the page load (before it completes) the redirect happens.
I would love to know how they are doing this but I dont want to share my cookies with the world! I am 90% convinced this is where its happening.
Any ideas from any of the big brains out there.

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