Help, pc with "System Alert Popup" (Zlob, other spyware)

Hi, I have found this windows xp machine in a bad state - first clue to problem was icons on the desktop labeled "Online Security Guide" and "Security Troubleshooting". They pointed to an obscure website, "asecureguide.com" and also mimicked the windows security center symbols.
There were also listings of:
-Internet Security Add-On,
-Video Access ActiveX object
-System Alert Popup


I then began the "Read & run me first" procedure provided by this forum
Went to uninstall the recommended items in the list:

First "Internet security add-on." It displayed a dialogue "you need to reboot before uninstalling. reboot now? OK/Cancel." I knew either could be a trick and instead closed out with the red x at top right of the window.
Then when I clicked it again it said "an error occured, program may have already been uninstalled, do you wish to remove from add/remove programs list?" I selected yes

Next System Alert popup and Video Access ActiveX Object. they gave the same "reboot" dialogue and i clicked out with the red x every time.

Emptied Yahoo Antivirus Quarantine (it had picked up a ByteVerify exploit back in october)
Yahoo Antispy quarantine showed it was empty (later found out this was false)

The rest of malware cleaning went normally (except Bitdefender and Panda online scans had to be run in normal boot mode. no web sites at all would load under safe mode w/networking, which is odd as it worked before)

After looking over the panda activescan logs I found most everything except the cookies were in the yahoo antispy quarantine. Y! antispy showed no items so it wouldn't let me purge. I wound up uninstalling Y! antispy as it is pitiful anyway.

checking add/remove programs, I see Video Access... has happily vanished!
System Alert Popup, when I clicked change/remove, displayed the "already uninstalled dialogue" and I selected to remove it from the list

here are the logs, including hijackthis!

 

note: i could only get a log in counterspy by viewing scan history and going to "print" then printing as pdf. the help files say there is a log folder under programfiles/sunbelt/counterspy, but it does not display any such folder.

also getrunkeys gave the error : system unable to find specified registry key or value

 

I keep getting the same error I did before, "unable to find specified registry key or value"

 

here ya go now I've learned

 

1. I replaced the security apps on this pc with Kaspersky Internet Security. Its scan removed that brix6ie file.
2.Uninstalling Yahoo antivirus got rid of that quarantine
3. Updated Firefox to latest
4. no more malware problems. I will now toggle System restore. thank you!!