A97M/Poly

Overview

Summary

Any program intended to be used to create viruses, accepting user input to make the created viruses different from others created by the program.

Alias

A97M/Poisson.A [Panda],

Category

Virus Creation Tool: A program designed to generate viruses. Even early virus creation tools were able to generate hundreds or thousands of different, functioning viruses, which were initially undetectable by current scanners.

Dropper: In viruses and trojans, the dropper is the part of the program that installs the hostile code onto the system.

Trojan Creation Tool: A program designed to create Trojans. Some of these tools merely wrap existing Trojans, to make them harder to detect. Others add a trojan to an existing product (such as RegEdit.exe), making it a Dropper.

Origins

Date of Origin

October, 2001

Detection and Removal

Manual Removal

Follow these steps to remove A97M/Poly from your machine. Begin by backing up your registry and your system, and/or setting a Restore Point, to prevent trouble if you make a mistake.

Remove Files:

Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:

A4ZetaBeta1 A95MConcept A97MAcPoison A97MAccessiV A97MJaring-B A97MPoly A97MSpirit AADL.dll AADUN3 AATools