Get rid of Bloodhound Virus 

You may surprise to know that Bloodhound virus is not a virus at all! Bloodhound is not the name of a virus but it is a misinterpretation by Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus. Norton treats it as it may have found a new virus.

Basically the Bloodhound virus is Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook Express vulnerability. This vulnerability is the result of the incorrect handling of HTML files embedded in CHM files. CHM is the Microsoft-compiled HTML help format. Norton Antivirus detects this vulnerability as virus. This heuristic detection of viruses can sometimes lead to false positives.

Many times the antivirus program detects the computer viruse temp files that have been downloaded from a web page. The Bloodhound virus is nothing but a false positive detection of a virus by Norton antivirus program. The vulnerability forces it to look like a virus to the scanner but in reality it is not a virus.

The detection as a virus is taken as real threat and can cause damage to a system. These false positive diagnoses detected by the antivirus program are the real threats.

Solution to the problem 

The Bloodhound virus is the outcome of Symantec's Norton AntiVirus program's ability to detect unknown viruses of various types using heuristic algorithms. If Norton Antivirus' AutoProtect Settings are set to High then the program will produce false positives for many files. Therefore it is recommended to keep default level in antivirus program to avoid false positive detection such as the Bloodhound virus.

Still you get the message "Bloodhound Virus detected", you should disable the Bloodhound Virus detection option in Norton AntiVirus program.

Steps to disable the Bloodhound Virus detection 

a) Open Norton AntiVirus.

b) Click the Option button.

c) Click on the Scanner tab.

d) Click the "Heuristics" button.

e) Clear the Bloodhound Virus checkbox.

The latest version of Norton AntiVirus has corrected this problem. You must update to the latest version of Norton AntiVirus to get rid of this problem.

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