Finally!

[plonq]

I set up Symantec's online virus scan and let it run overnight.  In spite of all the other scans I have run on this machine, it found 4 more Trojans on the computer.  I think it was just finding some straggler elements of what I had removed earlier.  I manually deleted the four files and then put the machine through a short battery of tests to make sure that everything still worked.

The machine is now going through a final defrag before I return it to its owner with a clean bill of health.  I instructed him to break his kids' fingers if he catches them trying to install KaZaA on the machine again.

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[plonq.livejournal.com]

This machine was palpable evidence that there should be a minimum IQ requirement before somebody can hook their Windows machine up to the net. This machine had so many bugs on it I was getting hives just being in the same room with it.

Aside from hardening it a bit against future exploits, I gave the owner a fairly pointed lecture about keeping a more secure system.