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No CD drive on mini laptop (windown xp) and virus is preventing me from accessing any websites to download anything that may help me. What am I to do?

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Welcome to GeekPolice Forums! I'm Crush but, you can call me Chris too Smile... and I will be helping you with your Malware issues.

A few things to keep in mind as we progress:

1. We are all volunteer staff here so we log in and assess threads when real life, work, family, and other obligations permit. Additionally, we are located all over the world. There may be a bit of a time delay due to this.

2. Malware Removal threads are very time intensive. Each entry must be researched until it can be said with 100% certainty whether or not it can stay or needs to be removed. Sometimes additional work is needed to weed out suspect entries

3. This may turn into a long ordeal but, rest assured we will stay with you until you are completely disinfected.

4. Only Tech Officers, Global Moderators, Administrators, and Malware Advisors are allowed to give advice on removing malware from your computer. Do not run any tools unless specifically asked to by a member of one of these usergroups

5. If you are not the original poster of this thread DO NOT run any fixes given to the poster in this thread. They are all custom tailored specifically to this user. It could prove to be disastrous.

6. Please keep responding until I give you the "All Clear". Absence of symptoms does not mean that everything is clear.

7. Your security programs may give warnings for some of the tools I will ask you to use. Be assured, any links I give are safe.

8. If you have any questions or issues please stop and ask! We are all here to help.


IMPORTANT: Please be aware that removing Malware is a potentially hazardous undertaking. I will take care not to knowingly suggest courses of action that might damage your computer. However it is impossible for me to foresee all interactions that may happen between the software on your computer and those we'll use to clear you of infection, and I cannot guarantee the safety of your system. It is possible that we might encounter situations where the only recourse is to re-format and re-install your operating system, or to necessitate you taking your computer to a repair shop.

Because of this, I advise you to backup any personal files and folders before you start.


If you follow these instructions, everything should go smoothly Smile....

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With that out of the way:

Please download and run RKill.

Download mirror 1 - Download mirror 2 - Download mirror 3

  • Save it to your Desktop.
  • Double click the RKill desktop icon.
  • It will quickly run and launch a log. If it does not launch a log, try another download link until it does.
  • Please post its log in your next reply.
  • After it has run successfully, delete RKill.

Note: This tool only kills the active infection, the actual infection will not be gone. Once you reboot the infection will be active again! Please do not reboot until instructed further to do so.
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Please download ComboFix ANTIVIR virus on mini laptop Combofix from BleepingComputer.com

Alternate link: GeeksToGo.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

ANTIVIR virus on mini laptop Query_RC
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:
ANTIVIR virus on mini laptop RC_successful

  • 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.

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That's the problem, I can't download anything since the virus is preventing me from accessing any websites and the mini laptop does NOT have a cd drive ...uuugh!

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Do you have another machine you can download tools to? How about a USB drive to transfer files over?

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Yes, I am writing to you on my mac and the mini has a usb drive (didn't think of that)!

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Beautiful Smile.... Can you transfer over RKill and combofix via USB to your Desktop on your netbook and run them from there please?

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Having a hard time, every time I click on the usb in "my computer" I get a "security warning" that prevents me from opening the files in the usb.

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Have you tried RKill?

Please download and run the following

iExplore.exe or eXplorer.exe

which are renamed copies of rkill.com, and try them instead.

Then Rename ComboFix to firefox.com

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I did download rkill on my mac and saved to usb. I then plugged the usb into my infected mini laptop. When I click on the usb in "my computer," to open the rkill files, a "security warning" (virus) pops up and prevents me from opening the usb.

I am going to keep trying, because it did allow me once to see the rkill file, but then it closed on me.

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Okie dokie. Let's see if we can take a different route.

Please reboot your netbook and hit F8 as the computer boots up. In the menu you are presented with choose Safe Mode With Networking.

In this mode the malware will be prevented from starting up. Once the desktop pops up please try running Combofix Smile...

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Ok, commy is now running.

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woohoo Smile... looking forward to your logfile

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MS Windows Recovery Console popup says...

This machine does not have the ms windows recovery console installed. Alternately, an existing installation of the recovery console may be present but requires updating.

Without it, combofix shall not attempt the fixing of some serious infections.

click yes to have combofix download/install it

note - this requires an active internet connection.

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Please click Yes Smile...

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ok, here we go!

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