[pchelpers] Re: Has onyone heard of a virus called "BloodHounds"

Hi Ekhart,

Monday, May 30, 2005, 12:40:31 AM, you wrote:

EGlnl> http://www.f-secure.fi/v-descs/bloodh.shtml
EGlnl> There is no virus known by this name to our product. Bloodhound is a
EGlnl> generic name used by Norton Anti-Virus that it might have found an
EGlnl> unknown virus. Sometimes this is a false alarm, sometimes a real alarm
EGlnl> on a virus unknown to NAV.

Norton has what it calls "Bloodhound(TM) virus detection technology",
which is basically just heuristics, but I don't think I've ever seen
it actually work.  :)

Note that just because it detects something doesn't mean that what it
detected is anything to be concerned about.

-- 
Scott.




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