I could be wrong on this virus name, it might not even be this anymore..
but the symptoms I experienced @ start were:
computer shutting off with no warning whatsoever, bluescreens of death (one of them was a memory dump, and another one of them was "unmountable boot volume" or "boot volume unmountable") and of course the coup de grace for this virus was it corrupted my file system so I couldn't even load windows XP.
The coup de grace, at this stage, I sat there for a minute watching the load screen go by (which ISN'T a performance issue, because my computer specs blow away the average computer..) and then thats when the unmountable boot volume BSOD popped up.
It's a pretty nasty bugger from what i've gathered; it can travel from the HDD to any memory caches on the motherboard or the RAM, yet again from what i've observed.
wanted to know if there's a way to remove this nasty little guy when you can't even get into windows to download the antivirut (
http://www.avast.com/eng/win32-virut.html) that avast has.
What i'm going to try to do tomorrow is use their mini-virus cleaner, the one that's like 5 megs and use it on my flash drive and boot it up using the flashdrive.
I'm hoping for an act of God on this because i'm frustrated and I put most of my remaining money into this computer, to use it for more than 2 years