*Information regarding models sold between September 2007 and April 2008

Toshiba found the files associated with a certain virus on the hard disks of some models of the following notebook PCs. Please take necessary steps as described in the following instructions.

On the hard drive of some Satellite L40/45 / Satellite Pro L40 / Equium L40 / Satego L40 models sold between September 2007 and April 2008, the files RavMon.exe and Autorun.inf have been found. These files are associated with the virus W32.Nomvar (Symantec name). Depending on the system environment, the subject virus may have already been moved to quarantine by the Auto Protect feature of the pre-installed anti-virus software Norton Internet Security (trial version).

Please note that although the virus files are located on all drives of the affected models, the pre-installed operating system image is not infected by the virus.

In the case of an (unintentional) activation, the subject virus will attempt to spread by copying itself to all available drives (including removable media and network shares). Furthermore, it will attempt to download additional harmful software from a specific Internet web site. Because this web site has been shut down already, chances are remote that any actual harm will occur in the unlikely case of an unintentional activation of this virus.

Your pre-installed Symantec anti-virus software (Norton Internet Security trial version) will detect and quarantine the subject virus if your notebook PC is affected. In case of doubt, please run a system scan with Norton Internet Security (or the anti-virus software of your choice) to make sure that the virus files have been quarantined.

If you have replaced the preinstalled anti-virus software with the anti-virus software of your choice, you should run a virus check with this anti-virus software. Major antivirus software will detect, remove, and quarantine the virus files.

Alternatively, you can also use a special tool Toshiba released for download to remove the virus file from all drives of your notebook PC’s hard disk. Please follow the link below:

Download T-Remover

Please click here and follow described procedure to remove the virus with above tool

Please click here to achieve information about the virus