I am at a lost as far as how to reboot my computer. It has the system tools 2011 virus and disabled my AVG. It locked up in safe mode and I went to reboot and now it wont start.
Thank you in advance for any help...current computer is a tiny netbook.

Hello, and welcome to The Ultimate Geek TaskForce!

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Please visit this webpage for a tutorial on downloading and running ComboFix:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix

See the area: Using ComboFix, and when done, post the log back here.

Thank you for the link to the program, I read the page completly. How can this be loaded on my computer when I can not get the computer to fully boot up. It starts to boot but sounds like it just freezes up. The screen stays black and there is no sound.

Oh ok.

Let's attempt to disinfect with this tool:

Avira AntiVir Rescue System is a Linux-based application that allows accessing computers that cannot be booted anymore.

• Download The Avira AntiVir Rescue System from Antivir.de.
  
• Just double-click on the rescue system package to burn it to a CD/DVD.
  
• Then please use that CD/DVD with Avira Rescue System to boot your computer.

You'll get a boot option to either boot from hard drive or AntiVir Rescue System.

Press the number 2 on your keyboard to boot into AntiVir Rescue System.

Please wait until drivers are loaded and Main menu shows. Then please select the second option “Scan your system with AntiVir” and hit Enter.

Under Configuration, please select Scan all files, Try to repair infected files and Rename files if they cannot be removed?.

Then please start the scan.

The Avira AntiVir Rescue System wil now

• repair a damaged system,
  
• rescue data,
  
• scan the system for virus infections.