Earlier today while organizing photos on my PC, NIS found a Bloodhound.Exploit.13 heuristic detection (malformed JPEG). Its an OLD one, from back in 2004 -- Question I have is based on the writeup from Norton, it doesn't impact Windows 7 (which I'm running). Is that correct, or does it (and the writeup just hasn't been updated)?
Hi CountryGuy,
The vulnerability that the threat exploits was patched eons ago by Microsoft. You would have to be running a very old, unpatched version of Windows to be susceptible. You might want to upload the file to VirusTotal, though, just to see if it really is malicious or simply corrupted. The risk assessments in the writeups are based not only on the severity of the infection, but also on how likely you are to encounter the threat in the wild. It applies to the population of PC users as a whole, whereas the threat alert on your PC only considers the potential damage that could happen to your computer if the malware was able to execute,
I thought I remembered seeing that patched, so I think its fine. I have most of the settings up to aggressive, so I wondered if it might be a false positive even.
I took a look at a backup from last week, and the file in question is not there. The file (named ~1010046b.tmp) was detected while I was importing old photos into Windows Live Photo Gallery. I'm wondering if its a temp file used by the app, and NIS2012, with aggressive settings, picked up on it and reported it.
In any event, I'm running an x64 Win7 box that's fully patched (with a Standard User account), so as you said the likelihood I have problem going forward is slim to none. Thanks!
Earlier today while organizing photos on my PC, NIS found a Bloodhound.Exploit.13 heuristic detection (malformed JPEG). Its an OLD one, from back in 2004 -- Question I have is based on the writeup from Norton, it doesn't impact Windows 7 (which I'm running). Is that correct, or does it (and the writeup just hasn't been updated)?