Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
IIRC, you probably won't be able to run from a flash drive in Safe Mode, but you can try it. If you can get your anti-malware installed, definitely run your scans in safe mode. In this age of rootkits and considering the likely state of the machine, you are probably going to have to boot off a CD and scan the drive from there.
There may be some anti-virus software still on (just not running on startup). I had forgotten about safemode.

Do you have a link to more explanation about booting from a CD?

I'll try renaming the exe too.

CR