Great - she got some kind of a Trojan on her machine yesterday. So last night, I tried everything I had in my toolbox: Winternals ERD 2003, Windowz XP Bart PE (older versions of McAffee Stinger, Ad-Aware, SpyBot S & D, and something else that didn't work). That was after attempting to run the already installed A/V and Anti-Spyware utilities through Safe-Mode with no luck, since it essentially locked out the Administrator account from the utilities. Also tried to install Norton Internet Security 2009, but again - admin functions are locked out.

The trojan (won't even let me get a good ID) has installed itself pretty much everywhere on the 'C' drive, and attempts to send e-mails to the 'mother ship' once Windows comes up.

So today, I learned how to build my own Windows XP Bart PE bootable CD with the latest versions of Ad-Aware and McAffee Stinger I could find. Trouble is, people have kinda lost interest in the Bart PE project and aren't providing a lot of support in the way of updated definitions and plug-ins. Took me an hour just to find the latest definition files for Ad-Aware SE, since they moved away from SE and have a newer version now. Never did find the AntiVir plug-ins.

But, I got the XP Bart PE CD built and booted about a half hour ago. Stinger's still deep-scanning the 'C' drive, and I still have Ad-Aware yet to run. So hopefully, I'll get this one taken care of without having to flush and reload. If not - oh well - nobody can say I haven't given this my best effort.