Total Security Malware Nightmare

Hi,

I got the Total Security malware last week. ON an XP with AVG Free and most other leading anti-spyware applications.

I did not realise initially what was happening so probably missed a window of opportunity to prevent it from taking control.

Anyway, situation at present is that I cannot run any exe files, cannot run Add/Remove Software, cannot run TaskManager and have tried a few ways around it. Also it won't boot in Safe Mood and so far have failed to boot it from disk (changed boot order and all that) though it is possible that the disk I was using wasn't suitable. Also I cannot install any programs.

What I can do in the Admin account is access non-exe files, so if I could find the relevant malware files maybe I can delete them that way. (I have serached for the usual file names in the suggested locations by other forums like this one, but no joy so far).

I can also use a non-admin account for about 30 min before the malware takes this one over and then a blue screen appears and system ceases. I can run exe files in the non-admin but they obviously have no admin access.

Any help, ideas is greatly appreciated.