A friend bought a new laptop and I installed the usual Spybot/Adaware/HJT tools so I can get him out of trouble if he gets into any, but AVG won't go.

When I try to install AVG, the self extractor window just closes and the whole process disappears. When I tried to run HJT the same thing happened until I changed the name from HijackThis to Pooh and now it runs fine. I tried this with AVG but no joy. MSCONFIG won't run either, it just opens and closes immediately.

I neglected to send myself the HJT log and I'm now at home on my own PC, but the only thing I could see which I consider to be a foreign body was an 04 entry called thyckl.exe [Outlook Express]. Google returned nothing.

Neither Adaware or Spybot picked anything up, but since I can't run AVG I'm stuck there. I searched for files named thyckl, found one in the system folder if I remember correctly and backed up and deleted it. I deleted the entries (it appeared twice) from the HJT log and restarted but it resumed.

Any ideas folk? Any help very much appreciated.

Strikez