G'day Marc,
I would have no trouble with using either the Kaspersky or AVG disks. I suspect you do not have a root kit or the root kit killer you tried would have fixed it. Root kit killers do only that, kill root kits. They are not normal AV or Anti malware tools and do not look for anything other than root kits.

hmm, there's a lot of root kits there...

Whatever malware is left is clearly hiding from your AV software so a tool like the Kaspersky or AVG boot CD is a good tool to use.


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