Norton Antivirus quarantined my "atitray.exe"

nycdude

Diamond Member
Jun 30, 2000
7,809
0
76
Hi all,

My Norton Antivirus program just quarantined my "atitray.exe" file as a threat for something called "Bloodhound overpacked"

anyone hear of this. should I reinstall the ati tools by Ray Adams and will that solve the problem since this one seems infected.
 

Mark R

Diamond Member
Oct 9, 1999
8,513
16
81
When Norton detects something as 'bloodhound', it means that it thinks it could possibly be a virus, it's not sure about it, but it definitely isn't a known virus. Essentially bloodhound analyses programs for suspicious programming techniques and flags them up. Unfortunately, this usually means a lot of false positives.

What 'overpacked' means is that Norton has detected the program uses an extreme compression technique (to reduce memory usage, or to make reverse engineering difficult). This type of technique is sometimes used by viruses to try and avoid virus scanners, so this is why it gets flagged as 'suspicious'.

You could try downloading a fresh copy of the drivers and reinstalling. If, however, the new copy does the same, then its very likely that this is a false positive detection, and you should disable detection of 'bloodhound.overpacked'.