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Got thru infected e-mail, Norton antivirus says I have an infected winkhg.exe file by "bloodhound.w32.ep" I think thats their message saying they don't know what it really is yet. I have isolated the file, but where do I get an uncorrupted one to replace it on my system. A web search finds no reference to it. Symptoms are extremely slow loading and response from Outlook Express, usually locks up after a few key strokes. IE also sometimes slow to respond. I found a few other diles corrupted with the same virus and deleted them. I have backups to replace these. Please alert me via e-mail if you have a suggestion...thanks in advance..VERN
This is a quote from a Microsoft Newsgroup forum;
""There are no 'bloodhound' viruses. Symantec uses that name for their
heuristics virus detection technology.To this date, 'bloodhound' found
more false positives than real viruses and created more scare than provided
help."_____________________________________________
The "winkhg.exe" is not something you want to replace,it is part of,if not THE virus.
If I'm wrong,I apologize,but I seriously doubt it.
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You def have the Klez virus. Download the repair tool.
Wink??.exe and Wink???.exe files are created by the virus.
It may have been detected as the Norton Antvirus found it "bloodhound" because your virus definitions are not up to date and it was not sure what it was, but knew that it was altering files on your system.
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Thanks for the feedback. I have since scanned and deleted all recognized viruses, but still have a big problem with Outlook Express. Loads very slowly, close to a minute, and about as slow to respond to commands. I used norton utilities 2002 to "find and fix" anything it could, it reports no problems now. Defragged and optimized my hard drive and no noticable improvement. Before I got thr virus every thing worked fine. IE6.0 seems to work ok also. I tried removing and reinstalling Express with no improvement. I'm getting frustrated, if I had any hair left iot would be getting gray!..Thanks for any advise short of taking a sledhe hammer to it>
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You need to go to the Norton or McAfee or some other AV web site and download their Klez removal tool and run it. The AV you have may not remove all of it, so run the download tool to be sure.
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Still no improvement. Downloaded Klex removal tool from Norton from a "clean" system to a floppy and ran it in Safe mode. Then ran Norton virus2003 and found nothing, ran nortun utilities again, all normal? I tried opening a few programs in Safe mode and they all seemed to open ok except Outlook Express, it took close to a minute then froze up. I'm working at the outer limits of my computer knowledge, I appreciate the help, I know every problem is different. That hammer is looking like a viable alternative right now.
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