Has anyone seen 'Poetry.A' virus?

[Patrick O Shane]

Hello,

I'm using AVG's free virus scanner/remover. It keeps saying it finds a virus
called 'Poetry.A' but I've searched all over the net for it and can't find
any information on it. I even used other scanning software and it never
shows up. Has anyone here run in to this virus? According to AVG it is a
trojan. TIA for any information.

Thanks,

Shane

 

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Hello,

I'm using AVG's free virus scanner/remover. It keeps saying it finds a virus
called 'Poetry.A' but I've searched all over the net for it and can't find
any information on it. I even used other scanning software and it never
shows up. Has anyone here run in to this virus? According to AVG it is a
trojan. TIA for any information.

Here's some alias names used by other av vendors:

http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/vgrep/vgrep.cgi?terms=poetry&product=0

And here's one description:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.doep.a.html

I suggest scanning with the KAV based av scanner from Microworld
Systems you can download from my web site. If other scanners fail to
alert, AVG is false alarming. What directory and file(s) is AVG
alerting on? Suspect files can be uploaded for av scanning here:

http://virusscan.jotti.dhs.org/


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[Patrick O Shane]

Art,

Thank you very much for replying to my post. I went to your web site and it
is a fantastic resource! I took your advice and downloaded Mozilla . . .
WOW! My download speeds went from 30kps to 80kps. Unbelievable. I always use
two web sites when I want to check my download speeds, winamp.com and
winzip.com. Web pages load as soon as I click, no delays at all like with
IE. I'll never use IE as a web browser again.

As for my original post about the Poetry.A virus, I have tried 4 other on
line scanners and none of them could find the virus, but the last one I
tried found a Trojan that none of the others, including AVG didn't find.
It's all very confusing.

Thanks Art!

Sincerely,

Shane