I am infected with alpha antivirus

My laptop is infected with alpha antivirus and I cannot access the net can a removal tool be downloaded to cd to remove it

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Please download ComboFix from BleepingComputer.com

Rename ComboFix.exe to commy.exe before you save it to your Desktop

• Disable your AntiVirus and AntiSpyware applications, usually via a right click on the System Tray icon. They may otherwise interfere with our tools A guide to do this can be found here
  
• Click Start>Run then copy paste the following command into the Run box & click OK "%userprofile%\desktop\commy.exe" /stepdel
  
• As part of it's process, ComboFix will check to see if the Microsoft Windows Recovery Console is installed. With malware infections being as they are today, it's strongly recommended to have this pre-installed on your machine before doing any malware removal. It will allow you to boot up into a special recovery/repair mode that will allow us to more easily help you should your computer have a problem after an attempted removal of malware.
  
• Follow the prompts to allow ComboFix to download and install the Microsoft Windows Recovery Console, and when prompted, agree to the End-User License Agreement to install the Microsoft Windows Recovery Console

Please note: If the Microsoft Windows Recovery Console is already installed, ComboFix will continue it's malware removal procedures.

Once the Microsoft Windows Recovery Console is installed using ComboFix, you should see the following message:

• Click on Yes, to continue scanning for malware.
  
• When finished, it shall produce a log for you. Please include the contents of C:\ComboFix.txt in your next reply.
  

I would also like to see a list of installed programs, so please do this:
Click Start > Run then copy/paste the following single-line command into the Run box and click OK:

C:\Qoobox\Add-Remove Programs.txt

In your next reply, please include the ComboFix log and the Add-Remove Programs log.

I tried to do as you said the program downloaded but would not run I kept getting an error message telling me that windows did not have the appropriate file path to continue can you suggest whats wrong

Please download this file: http://noahdfear.net/downloads/exe_fix.com and save it to your desktop

Double click on exe_fix.com to run it

Type the number 1 at the prompt and allow the tool to run

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Then, please restart your computer and try ComboFix again.

Thanks for that fix it worked brilliantly I am now free of alpha and have been able to format the hard drive I will post the appropriate logs that you requested at as soon as I can as the laptop has now been returned to its owner once again many thanks

No need for the logs if the hard drive was formatted.