: And erryone cares
Sad thing is that it's false :D

I finally removed the Win32/VIRUT.AN virus, cue AVG's virut remover rmvirut.exe and Safe mode with networking...
The problem was that I had to install a different copy of XP (Home instead of Professional) on a different partition because the existing one was corrupted due to a faulty SP3 installation...

Next time, I'll try Linux if I have to, but thankfully I don't.