Can I use a flash drive to run a virucide on a HP Notebook Mini 110?

My niece's HP Mini 119 1025DX notebook got infected with a false virucide program emulating MS Safety Essentials. As soon as the WinXP loads it displays itself. It has hijacked the computer and there is no access to the web or to restore the computer. She is a student and does not have a lot of money to fix it.
I can download the Malwarebytes software but there's no CD drive on the notebook to install it. HELP!!!!

Hi:
You can make a flash drive bootable and have the DOS files to run some commands, but whether or not it will work all depends on whether you can access the software's launch command from a DOS prompt. And you would need to know what that command is, like Setup.exe or whatever.
Here is a link on how to make a flash drive bootable and the applicable files.
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47812
If you can't get the program to run from a flash drive, you will have to obtain an external USB DVD-RW drive and run the disk using that.
I use the free Kapersky rescue disk to get rid of that particular malware.
http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk
Paul

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