Machine infwected with XP Antivirus 2012

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Machine infected with XP Antivirus 2012

Need some help; Have a Desktop running XP Pro, Got infected with Xp Antivirus 2012, would not let me run anything on computer, not even from safe mode. Did a system restore then run Malwarebyte. Got it running. Two weeks later it was back, now system restore did not work.Remove drive and hookup to drive adapter and scan with Malwarebyte on my laptop. During process, Microsoft Security Essentials on my laptop caught about eight virus it had to clean from my laptop.Malwarebyte found nothing. Rescan with Microsoft Security Essential and it found eight infected files. Hook up drive back in computer ran Malwarebyte and it said it found eight infected files. However malwarebyte is the only thing i can now run on this computer. Anything i click i get a "Open" window which has only selected applications. Tried format HDD, but tells me i cant because some application is running and i need to close before. This problem is waaay behind my capability being a novice. Would be very appreciative for some advice on how to fix this machine. Another thing i bought this machine from a guy on Craigslist and did not get the OS disk. Needed an XP machine. Help please.
 
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If you are willing to format then I recommend that you hook the drive up to the adapter just like you did before and format it from a working machine. You can do this from within disk management. As for not having a recovery disc, if the COA is still on the machine you may be able to contact the manufacturer and purchase recovery media.
 
Your EXE association is messed up, for one thing.

Decompress and run the attached file on the infected system. This should enable you to run EXE files properly again.

Then seek some help in finishing to remove your infection. I would recommend Majorgeeks forums or similar.

Good luck.
 

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You may also want to think about adding another antivirus software to your collection and run them as well. Superantispyware, Avast, Kapersky, etc. I would follow FoolishIT's suggestion first and get the EXE capabilities going.
 
To me, it sounds like you need to learn a bit about manual virus removal.

If you manually get into the system and remove registry keys and files associated, you can usually start the system up afterwards and run any tools you need. Relying on mbam or whatever to do the clean up for you makes you ineffective as a tech, because so many things are designed to prevent those tools from running.

There are plenty of guides about doing manual remove, then cleaning up with mbam and the rest. Search the forum and read up on it, you'll be amazed at how easy it is.
 
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dbdawn said:
Seems like a person who passed the A+, Net+ Security+, Project+, MCTP win 7 exams could figure out the basic stuff. :rolleyes:

http://www.technibble.com/forums/showpost.php?p=262708&postcount=1
Click to expand...

At my full-time job I get emails from admins with the same or similar creds. and have problems with simple tasks frequently. It's like they saw them on the web somewhere and thought it would be cool to add to their sig.
This sounds like an end user to me though.
 
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