Hello,

Yesterday I wanted to transfer files from my HTC Desire HD to my PC. I wasn't able to acces my folders, I got the message: "Cannot find the file L:\RECYCLER\0xFFD124566.exe."

After some googling I found out this is the Recycler virus, some sort of virus which put itself in the bin and autoruns itself. I tried to remover it with all sort of scanners, and it just doesn't work. Even 2 pc's are now infected I guess.

Does one of you have the perfect solution for me? As I'm really a noob at this, please explain in easy steps. I guess formatting would be the easiest, but wouldn't I lose my Whatsapp and Text messages (with all my pictures and movies)? And in what way should I format it, if so?

 

Thank you for your reply.

I didn't, just don't know how I got infected. Tried to clean my PC with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware but it didn't even find anything with an extensive search.

Before I knew it was a virus I tried it at the pc at my parents as well, same message. Guess that one got infected as well. Afterwards I scanned with a legal up-to-date version of Norton but Norton didn't find anything as well.

I just removed the Recycler folder with the Astro App, now it's gone but when I connected to my laptop again it didn't work.

Hope we can solve it now as I guess there will me more people with this problem in a few weeks!