Bloodhound.Exploit.20 help

I just got a virus called Bloodhound.Exploit.20 that affects the file C;/Documents and Settin.../free[1].anr. Could somebody help me out?

 

I'm going to guess you are using Norton AV:-

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/bloodhound.exploit.20.html

As you can see, it is a heuristic finding of an exploit in a .ani file (though you have given .anr as the extension - is this an error?):-

http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=.ani&Search=Search

Has Norton deleted/quarantined it? If so that should be the end of the matter. Norton won't disinfect/clean such a file, a simple deletion is the appropriate action.

 

I am also using Ewido. And anr is not an error, that was the file that Norton said was infected (a red popup popped up and said i have a virus and said that this file was infected). What should I do?


EDIT: Is this a serious virus or is it easy to remove?

 

Well it's not actually a virus at all - it is an 'exploit' which in certain cicumstances could take advantage of a Windows vulnerability as per the following:-

However if Nortan has alerted to it surely it has been quarantined? Because it is a heuristic finding it is even possible that Norton has made a mistake in which case (if you still have the file) you can upload the file to Jotti's for confirmation:-

http://virusscan.jotti.org/

You could also give yoursrlf an online scan:-

http://www.kaspersky.com/service?chapter=161739400

If the file has been quarantined and you are now 'clean', there is nothing else to do. You don't give the complete file path, so no info can be gleaned from that, though I might have expected the file to appear in your temp internet files rather than Documents and settings.

 

Well, the thing is is that I have an expired version of Norton so I'm not sure that it automtacially quarantined it. Where can I go to check just to make sure?

 

It gave you a warning didn't it - so it must have found it! In any case it was using heuristics rather than signatures.

Look in the records section of Norton for details.

Give yourself an online scan if worried.

If you don't want to renew your Norton licence then uninstall it and replace it with a good free AV that you can keep updated at no cost:-

http://www.majorgeeks.com/AntiVir_Personal_Edition_7_d955.html

 

I checked the quarantine section on Norton and nothing came up