urgent help bloodhound virus

angelcake

urgent help bloodhound virus. help
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tru

It's not a virus, well it is but it's not called Bloodhound

quoia

What about it ?
You've got it and don't want it?

What operating system are you running? Might be relevant.

You could always type "bloodhounbd" and "virus" into Google.

Usually the source of all knowledge.

criminal_smile

As it turns out, Bloodhound is a name given to unknown POTENTIAL viruses by Symantec, although it seems there may be a virus called Bloodhound.W32.EP
Try THIS FORUM for removal tips.

HTH

VH

Bloodhound is the shortened name for Bloodhound Heuristic Technology, which is an advanced part of the Symantec anti-virus scanning engine.

It's basically an advanced and intelligent part of an anti-virus scanner that is used to spot or 'sniff out' (hence Bloodhound) potential new viruses on your PC.

If Bloodhound detects something it thinks is a new virus, it will call it 'Bloodhound-SOMETHING' where SOMETHING could be W32.L, Packed, Exploit1, Exploit2, etc.

Norton Antivirus has Bloodhound technology built into it.

angelcake

Thank you, sorry about the lack of infomation, the virus had caused my keyboard to not work so I had to find letters from that writing above to copy and paste to make words!!!

I shall check out the links

I had a norton warning saying I had Bloodhound.w32 (I think) so I panicked! also AVG told me I had Mediket?? anyone heard of it?

Fran

angelcake wrote:

I had a norton warning saying I had Bloodhound.w32 (I think) so I panicked! also AVG told me I had Mediket?? anyone heard of it?

An internet search with Google etc. will usually give you a result on any viruses/ trojans you find, such as the info on the Sophos Website on Mediket.

Check Techie FAQ's, see above this thread, also it's a sticky at the top of the board. It has a lot of info under Internet Security...

angelcake

Thanks. I did think of this but as my keyboard wasn't working I could only look at what was in my favoutites folder and this website was one of them!

Fran

Can you click on the links through the posts in here somehow though? How did you manage to post?

mike55_2

this bloodhound thing must be doing the rounds at the moment. i got the warning last night, and not being technically minded, i looked at some of the sites mentioned here. as i'd let norton's run over it's date for renewal, it cost me 25 quid and a long night.

i just checked back at one of the sites and 7 people were viewing it. i'm not sure what removed it, but after getting the updates on renewal from symantec, i ran it again and no threats showed up

Fran? i can see that you're technically savvy, but when i ran one of the spyware programmes, giant i think, it said i had 'BingoFun (Adware)' on the pc and it was best to get rid of it. as giant's trial period had also run out, i didn't follow their advice to join. but i'm not sure why norton's didn't pick it up. is it a bit of scaremongering do u think?

looking at some of the cookies etc, i'd hazard at a guess and say the only place i've picked up so any cookies and whatnots, is via mutual points, but don't anyone quote me on that pls, it's just that i don't gamble! but it does offer a lot of points to view these gaming sites.

meep_2

angelcake its not a good idea to run more than one antivirus program on the same machine, spyware programs yes, but not antivirus.