>>>Hi everybody,
>>>
>>>I need to clean my husband's computer. I'd like to do it from the USB drive. What would you recommend?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
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>>This product (free version available) has received some good recommendations in the infosec community:
>>
>>http://www.malwarebytes.org
>
>Thanks. Somehow it didn't even run last time I tried to run it on the laptop.

Difficult to know why that would be but it is not impossible that the malware itself is attacking it.