Hi, Relax.....exactly what was found, are you able to find the item in Quarantine or any logs of the detection in the Norton program? Post what was found exactly as it appears, best if you can post the entire results from the scan or the detection from Norton. I don't know the exact steps for your version....
Did you go read the article? MS KB one?
Bloodhound.Exploit.95 is a heuristic detection for a vulnerability in Visual Studio 2005 (as described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-073).
If that is exactly the exploit that was found, you can get a patch for it at the Microsoft article.
You must have some of the MS Office suite installed, that needs the update for Visual Studio. You can do Office Updates, and if needed it will get the update for you.
""I am running Internet Explorer 7. Does this mitigate this vulnerability?
Yes. Customers who are running Internet Explorer 7 with default settings, are not at risk until the WMI Object Broker control has been activated through the ActiveX opt-in feature in the Internet Zone. However, if a customer has used this ActiveX control in a previous version of Internet Explorer, then this ActiveX control is enabled to work in Internet Explorer 7, even if the customer has not explicitly approved it using the ActiveX opt-in feature.""
That means, if it existed while you had IE 6, it is still there if you have switched to IE 7, many people have IE 7 because it is a critical update(read, will install automatically if you allow automatic updates).
Disk Cleanup sometimes will not get emptied, so we often reccommend one or another temp file cleaners....
Download Cleanup from
here
- Open Cleanup! by double-clicking the icon on your desktop (or from the Start > All Programs menu).
- Click the Options... button on the right.
- Move the arrow down to "Custom CleanUp!"
- Put a check next to the following (Make sure nothing else is checked!):
- Empty Recycle Bins
- Delete Cookies
- Cleanup! All Users
Click OK
- DO NOT RUN IT YET
Now boot to safe mode.
[*]Reboot your computer into
Safe Mode. You can do this by restarting your computer and continually tapping the
F8 key until a menu appears. Use your up arrow key to highlight
Safe Mode then hit Enter key once. The words "Safe Mode" appear in all 4 corners of the screen....and the screen is black. (OK)
Run Cleanup:
- Click on the "Cleanup" button and let it run.
- Once its done, close the program.
Apply the patch:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...B782-BE78512DCBFA&displaylang=en#Requirements
Read the info about it. Follow the instructions. I would download it to a folder or desktop and apply it from there.
If it tells you to restart, do so. Next move would be a new Norton scan to see if anything is found. Post what happens, what is found, etc
Also, post a Hijackthis log:
go to
Click here to download HJTsetup.exe
- Save HJTsetup.exe to your desktop.
- Double click on the HJTsetup.exe icon on your desktop.
- By default it will install to C:\Program Files\Hijack This.
- Continue to click Next in the setup dialogue boxes until you get to the Select Additional Tasks dialogue.
- Put a check by Create a desktop icon then click Next again.
- Continue to follow the rest of the prompts from there.
- At the final dialogue box click Finish and it will launch Hijack This.
- Click on the Do a system scan and save a log file button. It will scan and then save the log and then the log will open in Notepad.
- Click on "Edit > Select All" then click on "Edit > Copy" to copy the entire contents of the log.
- Paste the log in your next reply.
- DO NOT have Hijack This fix anything yet. Most of what it finds will be harmless or even required.
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