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It's going to be tough to do anything if your keyboard doesn't respond. But I can't see how the virus would do that with a DOS boot. Check to see that your keyboard is plugged into the right place, i.e., that you haven't inadvertently switched it with your mouse. If that turns out to be the case, you might be able to do a fresh installation of windows on the same, or another, partition, which will allow you to boot the system and get rid of the offending files. If you're using Windows 2K (which I suspect is the case, based on the C:\WINNT folder you mentioned) run the installation again and specify that you want a new installation, and give the system directory a different name, such as WINNT2.

If you have a USB keyboard it may not work in DOS mode. A USB only computer will usually support it, but a computer with standard PS/2 ports may not.

But you shouldn't have to fall back to DOS. If Windows starts up, just do what it says to do in the Symantec article linked above (a bit tedious but better than the alternatives), and you should be fixed.

One of our managers at work got this thing on his laptop last Friday. He would have had to have gone through a dialup connection and a personal email account, and had his Norton Anti-virus either disabled or out of date. Our corporate NAVmail system is constantly updated, and it stopped it in it's tracks.

I haven't had a hit from it at home yet - I guess most of my peeps are staying current on their vaccinations.

Dave in Eugene