I am working on a friends computer that was heavily loaded with major bugs. I've been able to neutralize most of them but this one just will not stay away. It is batmeter16.dll. I don't know which virus it is associated with but it shows up when I do an HJT scan. I click to delete it and do another scan and it comes right back.

I've run malwarebytes several times and it is now reporting clean. HJT reports the file as being in C:\windows, but I cannot find it there. I've searched the entire contents of all drives and it is not found. Neither could I find it in the registry. It's a mystery.

I am doing all of this while in safe mode and Restore is turned off. I've already completed a thorough cleaning with ccleaner and deleted all temp files, and cleaned up the reg.

The computer is a Dell with XP Home installed. I have not been able to boot into xp normal with any success as of yet but I am able to work in safe mode now. Consequently, I cannot install SuperAntiSpyware, nor Adaware-SE. For some reason neither of those two will install while in safe mode.

Anybody know how to get rid of this file?

Thanks...Randy