How to remove virus if I can't log onto my computer???

[andreamariet]

I have a DELL xps and recenlty have gotten a virus- trojan.downloader and it keeps popping up in the registry twice with the Malware scans.:

HKEY local Machine/Software/Microsoft/WIndowsNT/Current Version/Winlogon/Userinit.exe

I reboot and it returns after it is'deleted'.

I thought I knew what I was doing when I decided to then manually delete the 'userinit.exe' file directly from the registry. So now I can't log into my computer to do anything.

How do I get this off to use my $$$$ expensive computer again??

Please help.

Thank you

[miekiemoes]

I thought I knew what I was doing when I decided to then manually delete the 'userinit.exe' file directly from the registry. So now I can't log into my computer to do anything.

That was a real bad idea...

To restore it, please see here: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/peboot.htm

[miekiemoes]

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