Locked CLSID key removal

[SSK2010]

Under Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit:

I got a CLSID key that I cannot remove. I suspect this to have been part of a trojanhorse keylogger thing that was removed early on. Now Malwarebytes doesnt pick up anything and other progs dont as well so I thought this might be from my firewall or antivirus-spyware programs but from what I read CLSID is for Active X controls and I should be able to delete them all but thats the problem.

Inside the CLSID folder there's only a folder called "Programmable" with an empty key. Its an empty value key that the reg cleaner picks up but cannot delete because its locked. This key oddly shows up twice as the same key under the registry cleaner. That is how I initially discovered it. So again there are two keys that are picked up by the reg cleaner with the same CLSID number.

I have tried RegAssassin and it did not work even in safe mode. I have messed with the permissions and could not get it to delete it because of OWNER OPERATOR. Now OWNER OPERATOR has changed to RESTRICTED. Through this forum I have learned of MS DaRT but I guess that would require me to purchase it in which I cannot do. And even if I did I do not know how to use ERD to remove the key. Like I said the progs I have dont pick up anything. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions besides killing my OS and wiping the drive?

"In response and direction from my other forum post I ran DDS and the other one and have attached the files. The ark is empty it didnt pick up anything,"

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