Erroneus virus report

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hello, people.
I’ve got a boring issue with avast antivirus 4 professional.
There’s a program called Teamspeak (www.teamspeak.org) that I use to talk with my clan mates when I play Counter Strike. Well, since a little time until now it’s been saying that keypress.dll is a trojan… of course it’s an error because it’s never recognized it as a virus until today.
This is the full log about the alarm:
02/08/2004 20.47.14 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM 1464 Sign of “Win32:Trojan-gen. {Other}” has been found in “C:\PROGRAMMI\TEAMSPEAK2_RC2\KEYPRESS.DLL” file.

How can I fix it and just let Avast ignore it?

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Hi Deviad,
Welcome to the forum.
Please check out the following link and take it from there.
http://www.ni-gamers.co.uk/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=32
Hopefully this answers your question. :slight_smile:

3

There is Teamspeak and Teamspeak2, first one is a legitimate application, second one is a trojan. Which one do you use?

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Heh, I got the same virus notifation upon this morning’s bootup…this time with the /mirc6.03/mirc.exe file. ???

The siren sounded cool though…scared the heck out of me ;D

Donno if this is a false alarm though…never had any problems with this file before.

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Looking at the error Deviad posted, I’d say he has the Teamspeak2 trojan. :frowning:

So, it looks like this is not an bad alarm that he got. :frowning:

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DScans,

mirc 6.16 is the latest. Earlier version had exploits. Upgrade, you can be infected with a irc trojan.

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This thread talks about potential increase in False Positive - Trojan-gen detections

This thread is also similar to your experience http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=6359

Aside from this, keeping your irc software up to date is important as vulnerabilities are identified and software patched.

HTH David