HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B

If you are seeing security warnings that say that something called HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B has been found on your PC, you’ve been infected with a rogue anti-spyware program. Regardless of the reason for the appearance of an alert claiming the presence of HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B, the name doesn’t refer to anything real. HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B is simply a false positive issued by bogus online malware scanners of rogue anti-spyware programs like Internet Security 2011. If you're infected with a rogue anti-spyware program such as Internet Security 2011 and an alert message lists HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B as a "threat", you should seek a legitimate anti-spyware program to remove the rogue application and the malicious files responsible for performing harmful activities in your system.

What is Really Going on With HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B?

There has been some confusion surrounding HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B, and some dubious sources on the Internet refer to it as if it is a real threat. HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B is not a threat, and interpreting it as one is incompatible with the known facts about HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B. What we know about HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B is precisely this:

• The only real anti-virus program that reports finding HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B is Avira AntiVir.
• Avira AntiVir began flagging HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B on users’ computers as of April 1, 2011.
• As of April 4, Avira officially stated that the detections of HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B had been a false alarm resulting from VDF 7.11.05.167. An update was released, along with the recommendation that Avira AntiVir users update their virus definitions to VDF 7.11.05.167.

Therefore, if you use Avira AntiVir and the software has warned you that it has found HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B, check the version of your virus definitions. Chances are, the definitions are out of date.

Unconfirmed Reports about Other Instances of HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B

There have been reports that some fake security programs claim to find HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B, and then demand a "license" fee in order to remove HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B – when, in fact, the bogus program can’t detect threats, and there aren’t actually any licenses to be had. While it is possible that rogue anti-virus applications have picked up on HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B as a threat name, there is not, as yet, any direct evidence of this.

The HTML/Dldr.Bandom.B issue is an excellent example of why you should continually keep your anti-virus application updated. If you have the most current threat definitions, you stand a much better chance of catching real malware when it appears, and you can avoid panicking over what are really nothing more than simple mistakes or false positives.