Solved Adware: random ad websites popping up

[SejongC]

Since 2 days ago, I've been infected with some sort of adware that managed to both change by default start-up page in chrome as well as random websites popping up. Several words in many websites would be highlighted green with underlines and clicking on those would pull up both a separate tab and a separate page, both of which are ad websites.
After running the virus scanners above, it changed back to my normal start-up screen on chrome and every time after I would run the scanner, chrome would act fine, but after restarting it, it would come back (only the random websites/links)
I am getting really confused and irritated on how my scanners say there is nothing there, but then after restarting my computer, it would just come back.

 

[TwinHeadedEagle]

Hello,

Is this happening in all browsers?

 

[SejongC]

Hello,
No it is specific only to Chrome

 

[TwinHeadedEagle]

Can you try to empty the cache?

 

[SejongC]

ah that did the trick thanks!
however can you explain why that works when other anti-malware software didn't work?

 

[TwinHeadedEagle]

That's because Anti-Malware software doesn't clean the cache but malware. Sometimes there is a cached content poisoned by malware.