I just scanned this thread, not thoroughly reading every post.
Any chance someone just accidentally uploaded the wrong favicon.ico to your site?
If your Windows really is hacked, this is what we use and we've never had a
single virus, spyware, etc. in over twelve years:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
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