Help with this Virus Tanatos.M

[Deacon Brown]

Hi guys

A friend of mine has an extrenal HDD that has this virus on it Tanatos.M

Now I have managed to remove the virus with AVG, but his icons have not returrned properly and the folders that where affected have not appeared.

Could anyone suggest a fix for this?

[Deacon Brown]

Hi Anyone have an idea?

[Deacon Brown]

I guess no one can help :no:

[lordpake]

I am sorry but I for one can't understand the problem.

Did your friend have active infection on his system, or did he just have dormant malware in some file(s) in external drive?

If the latter, then I can't understand why removing dormant malware would cause side effects in Explorer. As for the affected folders, are you sure AVG didn't just delete them as well?

[xdot.tk]

Do you mean that asia pics, admin, music, my music in your image are really folders? If so, try running a chkdsk /r on the disk.

[Deacon Brown]

Do you mean that asia pics, admin, music, my music in your image are really folders? If so, try running a chkdsk /r on the disk.

Thanks Lepton

That is what I mean, they used to be folders and when I do a virus scan on the external HDD they come up as folders with files in them.

They are just not showing up when I look at the HDD in explorer mode.

How would i go about doing the chkdsk /r on the drive?

[xdot.tk]

I just realized that image is of Windows Vista. This is the NT4/2000/XP forum. I presume Vista is the same but in XP you would do the following.

Open a command prompt > type f: > you should now have F:\>, type chkdsk /r and press enter

A better way but it may not work since the pre-Windows environment may not recognize the drive

Right click the drive > Properties > Tools > Error-checking. A disk check options dialog will appear. Tick off both options then click Start. It will tell you Windows has to reboot. Click Yes.

[Deacon Brown]

Thanks Lepton

When my friend is next down to mine I will try this.