Thanks guys. I ended up doing a reformat to be safe. There was definitely something fishy going on. The video card thing stopped after I closed a few ports that I had opened for previous solo mining sessions. The few days prior to that I had installed 15 wallets for different coins, so maybe that is a possibility. But I think what might have happened is I clicked a link in a forum that was posted by a guy who openly admitted to being a botnet runner. The page that it took me too immediately aroused my suspicions. He was the admin of the site so I mistakenly trusted his link. The deal sealer was when today I noticed the first two cores on my processor were running full throttle and labels as "system". Even after reboots and such.
All is good now and I will use VMs from now on to be very safe. I also have 2 full 3rd party package AV/Firewalls installed and 4 of the best full time running anti-malware/spyware progs running. As well as peerblocker
Maybe it would worth finding a hosts file as well that is filled with all the latest "junk".
Hey btw niko what is that box you posted? What does it do and where can I get one? Is that similar to a PFsense box? I haven't read much on the PFsense yet, but maybe it's something I should figure out, or that box that you posted.
I do have DD-WRT though that I previously flashed a while back to increase maximum simultaneous connections, maybe I should learn how to beef up some of the firewall settings.