Email-Worm.Tanatos.a
Posted: March 4, 2007
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 9/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 0 |
First Seen: | July 24, 2009 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Email-Worm.Tanatos.a is a mass-mailing worm virus that uses its own SMTP engine to spread itself. Email-Worm.Tanatos.a can spread through file-sharing networks, such as KaZaA and IRC, as well as email, newsgroups. Once executed, Email-Worm.Tanatos.a attempts to kill anti-virus and personal firewall programs running on a machine. Once it gets onto your machine, Email-Worm.Tanatos.a will send itself as an email attachment to all addresses that it can find and collect from your Outlook Address Book. Email-Worm.Tanatos.a is also known as Email-Worm.Bugbear.
Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:nvmyppm.dll
File name: nvmyppm.dllSize: 5.63 KB (5632 bytes)
MD5: 9e607c4737e4846c8511c2a68da78ee4
Detection count: 4
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
is tanatos.a different from tanatos.j worm virus? im really confused.. i scanned my PC and it detected W23/tanatos.j virus.. i dunno much about computers.. and i really need a big help.. most of my .exe programs were destroyed... i cant access my task manager and my firefox isnt working properly... pls help....