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mimic:
Somehow one of those malwares that pretends to do scan, "finds" tons of viruses and then asks for money installed on my win xp partition, avast just let it in like it's nothing. Anyway ever since it completly wrecked havoc on xp partition and I've been using Vista parition, but I'd like to go back to xp without reinstalling, so my question is, is there any software that will scan the xp partition without loading xp, because that malware won't let it run any type of antimalware, and will redirect any antimalware/virus web page to the crap of it's choosing. I've got limited access to xp now, it always freezes after ~10 min.

wp34:
We use Malwarebytes where I work for these types of infections.

They offer a free version here - http://www.malwarebytes.org/

We usually pull the drive and scan using another computer via a SATA/USB cable.  Not sure if you can use it to scan another partition.  Does Vista see your XP partition as another drive-letter?

Ed_McCarron:
Second Malware bytes.  If you have trouble running it, run RKILL first.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic308364.html

It'll stop most malware lone enough to get MWB running.  Theres 5 flavors on the assumption the malware won't recognize at least one.

saint:
Malwarebytes FTW.

mimic:
I already tried Malwarebytes, but under xp it will not start and then xp will freeze, under vista partition it didn't cleanup . Someone told me that it has to be installed on the systems partition in order to properly clean up.

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