Bloodhound.Packed

Symantec antivirus products exclusively use the virus name Bloodhound.Packed when a potentially unknown virus is found using Symantec Bloodhound technology. Bloodhound technology consists of heuristic algorithms used to detect unknown viruses. The actual file detected under Bloodhound.Packed is likely to be infected with a new, packed, 32-bit Windows virus.

Bloodhound.Packed is detected only in Portable Executable (PE) files. Bloodhound.Packed can detect any threat within a packed file.



What are Portable Executable (PE) files?
Portable Executable (PE) files are files that are portable across all the Microsoft 32-bit operating systems. The same PE-format executable can be executed on any version of Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP. All the PE files are executable, but not all the executable files are portable.

A common example of a PE file is a screen saver (.scr) file.

Protection

• Initial Rapid Release version January 19, 2004
• Latest Rapid Release version January 19, 2004
• Initial Daily Certified version January 19, 2004
• Latest Daily Certified version January 19, 2004
• Initial Weekly Certified release date January 21, 2004

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Threat Assessment

Wild

• Wild Level: Low
• Number of Infections: 0 - 49
• Number of Sites: 0 - 2
• Geographical Distribution: Low
• Threat Containment: Easy
• Removal: Easy

Damage

• Damage Level: Low

Distribution

• Distribution Level: Low