The following instructions pertain to all current and recent Symantec antivirus products, including the Symantec AntiVirus and Norton AntiVirus product lines.

Disable System Restore (Windows Me/XP).
Update the virus definitions.
Run a full system scan and delete all the files detected as Bloodhound.Overpacked.

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

Bloodhound.Overpacked is only detected in Portable Executable (PE) files. Bloodhound.Overpacked can detect any file that has been packed many times.

The following instructions pertain to all current and recent Symantec antivirus products, including the Symantec AntiVirus and Norton AntiVirus product lines.

Disable System Restore (Windows Me/XP). Update the virus definitions. Run a full system scan and delete all the files detected as Bloodhound.Overpacked.

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

Bloodhound.Overpacked is only detected in Portable Executable (PE) files. Bloodhound.Overpacked can detect any file that has been packed many times.

What year of norton do you have (2004 2005 2006 2007?), do you have the plain anti-virus, internet security, or system works? Also, what is the date on the virus definitions that detected this? (or your current definition’s date, if you are uncertain of the date of the definitions that detected it)

norton has also detected this on ad-aware.exe on my pci have norton internet security 2005, the virus definitions i have is dated 13/12/2006it didnt detect the bloodhound.overpacked through a scan. i got a popup message from norton.i have full system scanned the pc and nothings come upsome pics:

Hmm.... 2005 is the older scan engine, but it should be functionally equivalent to 2006 in terms of detections. Also the 2005 version only updates once a week, so it won't change in detection till Wednesday. Please go into your norton quarantine and get details for the backup of this file, find the exact file size an post back here. While you are there, you may also want to try choosing to submit the file to symantec (be sure to include your email address so you can receive a reply), if they reply, post it here.

Adaware.exe is being quarantined by my anti-virus also. I have the Enterprise Edition of Symantec Antivirus, V10. This has happened twice now. The first time I reinstalled ad-aware. Submitted to Symantec.

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

Bloodhound.Overpacked is only detected in Portable Executable (PE) files. Bloodhound.Overpacked can detect any file that has been packed many times.

Adaware.exe is being quarantined by my anti-virus also. I have the Enterprise Edition of Symantec Antivirus, V10. This has happened twice now. The first time I reinstalled ad-aware. Submitted to Symantec.

This may be a sign that ad-aware is infected with a file infector virus, let us know when symantec emails you back with their analysis.