Connection issues..Help Please!!!

Ok so here is my little story... I have been trying to connect to the
internet (all day!!!) via my ISP. I click on IE and all seems to be going
well..@ the bottom of the screen you see "finding site: verizon.com" yada
yada...the window hangs there for a few then just as it seems like its going
to connect it dosen't...then under the .."Finding Site:" it has changed to
the following..."slirsredirect.search.aol.com"...and it just continues to do
nothing. It never connects or fails it just keeps hanging there. So...can
someone pleasssse tell me what the deal is. Is it spyware??

Here are the things I've done to try and correct this...with no luck I might
add.
Resetting my computer and modem
reset internet properties
Looked into registry (over my head without step by step
Called Verizon -After their attemps was told to call AOL.
Called Aol- After their atemps to connect- left on my own and told to
re-install IE and aol????
Ran a couple different virus and spyware programs...found nothing.
reinstalled my ISP software. So here I am... It seems the only way I can get
on line right now is by going thru the install process with my ISP software
disk. It seems to set all the settings and then puts me online, but as soon
as I X (exit out) and then try to go back in like normal via IE thats when I
get all the trouble. So there you have it. So can someone please help me???
I'm staying connected right now via my install disk in hopes of some speedy
replies and ideas. Running windows XP . Thank You so much!!

PS I posted this yesterday in Networking and Web and got no replys. So sorry
for the double posting.

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Thank You !!!!
Mouse