Conduit search. Am I paranoid?

Conduit has a number of programs out there to add on to your computer without your knowledge or permission. I got their "searchprotect" downloaded on mine, don't have a clue where, but it was adware that started sending out emails to everyone on my contact list using my email address under my name. When I would check on the "sent" file, nothing would show up. I installed the Malwarebytes program and it found the conduit programs and deleted them for me. I had tried to use the uninstall windows program but it kept giving me the "busy", try again later message. Conduit also changed my search engine from google over to their search engine but it looked just like the google one. If a person googles conduit or search protect, they have a nice 20 step process of how to remove all the junk that was added when you got infected. The search protect program didn't seem to try and steal anything, it just sent out several hundred emails a day promoting different products from women's magazines to cleaning products, claiming that I recommended they take a look. I suspect if they opened the attached link, it also downloaded the adware to their computer as well.

Since I got rid of the adware several weeks back, my Malwarebytes paid program, history report, shows it has blocked Conduit at least a dozen times from trying to reload the adware to my computer. Real persistent about it.