Bloodhound.Morphine

Symantec antivirus products exclusively use the virus name Bloodhound.Morphine 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.Morphine is likely to be infected with a new, packed, 32-bit Windows virus.

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

Protection

• Initial Rapid Release version August 22, 2005
• Latest Rapid Release version August 22, 2005
• Initial Daily Certified version August 22, 2005
• Latest Daily Certified version July 23, 2007 revision 035
• Initial Weekly Certified release date August 23, 2005

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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