I know this is totally non-Whitney (but this IS the chat room). Can I create a boot disc on a laptop running Vista to use to boot up an infected PC running XP so I don't trigger whatever virus executable is in the infected PC's startup?

Any suggestions are welcome.

Our PC is infected with one of those nasties that incapacitates any antivirus software you have on your system, and doesn't allow you to delete certain files associated with the virus. It even shut down a new antivirus program that I tried to download and run.

CaT

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