Virus......W32.RETROY does anyone know??

[catk102]

I got infected with this virus yesterday AVG picked it up but couldnt repair or delete it also did an online scan at pc-cillin.com it did not pick it up,what this thing seems to do resend itself from my address book I was looking on the Symantec website for instructions and or Removal tools they did not have it listed neither did Mcafee for that matter,I ended up doing a reformat with my recovery version of windows,but does anyone know this particular virus?I couldnt find anything on it?



might be in the wrong forum feel free to move it

[mairving]

W32.Retroy??? I don't see that virus listed anywhere. Is that the correct name?

[catk102]

Yep sure is the correct name,I had the same problem noone seemed to have heard of it thought maybe it was just me lookin in all the wrong places,even had a tech guy say well now I hve never heard of that one (after he said that I did'nt feel so bad )lol what I found starnge as well is that none of the "big ones" had it in their virus lists neither does my AVG yet it detected it and it was a virus it showed all kinds of activities that a virus would make for a few days but since I scan almost daily it it didnt show I didn't know what to make of it and I upgrade often so after the last upgrade a couple of days ago it showed up,I thought I ahd it qaurantained(sp?) but early the next morning it was back since I couldnt find anything else on the net I just did a reformat with my revovery disks.