How do I run an anti-virus scan if I can't boot?

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my emachine winxp he just went to a black screen oneday that said boot failure insert system disk and press any key. i do not have a sys disk just the two disks that came with my pc. i tried different things that i saw on these forums and am now at NTDLR MISSING i can get into my boot menu and my bios setting but thats all i cant get into windows any help out there please. ty

My Grandparents computer is bogged down will not bring up Icons or windows bar at the bottom is trying to get them to purchase protection before they can user there computer afain could not find safe MODE ....ANY IDEAS??

Sounds bad. Without knowing more specifics, all I can recommend is this: How do I remove a virus? - though it sounds like a reformat/reinstall is in your future.

24-Aug-2009

Hello.
New here, just signed up this morning.
Tried to go to the following:
"using Knoppix to perform a Virus Scan" http://go.ask-leo.com/060717a.
Get redirected to:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/hacks/.
Nothing there I can use to do a virus scan.
Help.
Thanks,
Fred.

Norton does still have bootable disks for system recovery. It comes free with yor NIS. If you don't know where to get yours, you can ask Norton Support and they will provide the download url. You will need your Norton Product Key to run the virus scan.

I have the same problem as the others. XP operating system, with SP2, on a computer maybe 5+ years old. Plenty of anti-virus software. Computer started rebooting itself for no known reason last week. Tried Repairing it several times but it kept rebooting itself every time it got into Windows. The time spent in Windows got shorter and shorter until I couldn't even get into the OS. Just a black and white text screen, wouldn't even get past the boot menu - the computer froze every time.
I created a Knoppix (Linux) bootable CD as suggested. Put it into the CD drive... turned it on... CD booted up... got the splash screen... got a message that it was loading Linux... and then everything went black and the CD stopped spinning. Dead to the world.
And somehow when the bad computer rebooted itself, another computer which was plugged into the same router also rebooted itself over and over and over and over and over...
Two computers dead. How can it pass through a router?
Any and all suggestions to help fix these electronic paperweights would be GREATLY appreciated.

My computer did the exact same thing as Iggy's. I have a router is my iPod that runs on the same network in any danger?

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