Virus Scan--BloodhoundO

[Guest]

Norton Virus scan says that I am infected with "Fastutility[1].exe
BloodhoundO. The repair wizard cannot rid me of it, cannot manual delete, no
results in search all files and folders. Cannot find help or suggestions on
the 100% mechanized Symantec site. Thanks in advance

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "BobMoe" <[email protected]>

| Norton Virus scan says that I am infected with "Fastutility[1].exe
| BloodhoundO. The repair wizard cannot rid me of it, cannot manual delete, no
| results in search all files and folders. Cannot find help or suggestions on
| the 100% mechanized Symantec site. Thanks in advance
| --
| BobMoe

There are anti virus News Groups specifically for this type of discussion.

microsoft.public.security.virus
alt.comp.virus
alt.comp.anti-virus

Bloodhound is the term used by Symantec/Norton for Heuristic detection.

The name; Fastutility[1].exe is indicative of a file found in the IE cache. It s a
protected system folder and won't show up under normal file searches.

Have Norton move the file to Quarantine or perform the following to remove it...

Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.


* * * Please report back your results * * *

 

[Plato]

Norton Virus scan says that I am infected with "Fastutility[1].exe
BloodhoundO. The repair wizard cannot rid me of it, cannot manual delete, no
results in search all files and folders. Cannot find help or suggestions on
the 100% mechanized Symantec site. Thanks in advance

Download AVG and Avast to a new folder on C:. Disable system restore.
Boot to safe mode. Install each and scan. Reboot normally. Run each,
update first, then do a full scan again.

 

[Kelly]

Mucho info on the removal process, Bob.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c2coff=1&q=Bloodhound+remove&spell=1

--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much, cleaning things up now--BobMoe
--
BobMoe

Mucho info on the removal process, Bob.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c2coff=1&q=Bloodhound+remove&spell=1

--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

Norton Virus scan says that I am infected with "Fastutility[1].exe
BloodhoundO. The repair wizard cannot rid me of it, cannot manual delete,
no
results in search all files and folders. Cannot find help or suggestions
on
the 100% mechanized Symantec site. Thanks in advance

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much, cleaning things up now.
--
BobMoe

Norton Virus scan says that I am infected with "Fastutility[1].exe
BloodhoundO. The repair wizard cannot rid me of it, cannot manual delete, no
results in search all files and folders. Cannot find help or suggestions on
the 100% mechanized Symantec site. Thanks in advance

Download AVG and Avast to a new folder on C:. Disable system restore.
Boot to safe mode. Install each and scan. Reboot normally. Run each,
update first, then do a full scan again.

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much for the detailed reply, still working on getting rid of
Bloodhound.