Hi,
My computer has been infected with the Tanatos.M virus and the virus/worm seems to be
going on an infection spree.
The symptoms started first with access to anti-virus websites being down, and task manager/registry
editor becoming unavailable.
I still however managed to download AVG8 (free version) from cnet.com, but soon
after I installed it and rebooted the computer, it detected a number of files with the Tanatos.m
infection and claimed that they could not be healed.
Every few minutes there was a popup with a new set of executables being tagged as infected and
not healable.
Upon the next reboot, the network interface was no longer visible in ipconfig either. I am unable to run
HijackThis or download anything onto the computer. PLEASE HELP!! I am terrified that the virus will
wreck the computer further and have switched it off altogether.
Is there anyway I can use some boot-cd with a virus scanner to get rid of this nasty virus?? What do
I do next? :(