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Ever heard of Bloodhound.PDF.1?

Discussion in 'Non-Emulation Help' started by dmac154, Jul 3, 2009.

  1. dmac154

    dmac154 Well-Known Member

    Well, I have.
    I had just updated my firefox version to the new 3.5 and as soon as it was done installing, norton opened a window to say that my computer has been infected with the Bloodhound.Pdf.1 heuristic virus/torjan. Now I have searched a bunch of sites and nowhere explains a coherent removal process. Norton prompted me to say that it has been quarantined, but not cleaned. So any suggestions?
     
  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    get a decent AV to start with.
     
  3. dmac154

    dmac154 Well-Known Member

    I ahve both avg and avast as well, but they do not find anything wrong with the file.
     
  4. TirithRR

    TirithRR Well-Known Member

    ...

    Why are you running three different Antivirus programs on the same computer?
     
  5. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    norton is NOT a reliable antivirus.
     
  6. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    It can help just in case one doesn't pick up something that the other does.
     
  7. TirithRR

    TirithRR Well-Known Member

    But they have a tendency to interfere with one-another. Specially if one quarantines some files and the other ones try to access those files (to likely do the same thing).

    One anti-virus
    One anti-spy/ad/malware
    One firewall (if you feel you need it)
    A good browser with blocking addons.

    Then if you do get something that your anti-virus or anti-spy/malware program can't handle, you download a couple of those super programs for a one time use, like SuperAntiSpyware, Malwarebytes, etc.