Windows XP reactivation after virus cleaning?

I have Windows XP home. I ran Malwarebytes Anti-malware, which finds a few articles that were infected, it is cleaned up. However, when I restarted and then restarted my computer, it wouldn't boot fully and said that I needed to activate Windows XP. I thought that the *? Activate the Windows program said that it couldn't find my internet connection to activate online, if I tried to activate by phone.  The woman on the phone said that of Activation ID that was shown on my screen is not valid (even if she has repeated verbatim back), so she said she couldn't give me a confirmation ID, and instead I had to call support. The guy he wanted my product key Windows XP, which I gave to him, and he said was valid, she couldn't give me a confirmation either ID, they are sent to another person. No #3 says that he also could not give me a confirmation ID, even if my product key was valid, unless I paid $59 for technical support. There is no way I can get a confirmation ID, given that my copy of Windows is legitimate with my unique product key, without be bounced three people at microsoft who all say that can't stop even if my product key is valid?

Maybe there was a false positive and MBAM removed something necessary!

Look at your most recent-log mbam and copy and paste the results in your next post so that we can see what might have happened.
In addition, run the system restore, using a date just before your problem can probably solve your problem.

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