Umm Guys.....

Merly

Full Member
I just turned on my TS and got this message from my Norton AV
E:\GAMES\TEAMSPEAK2_RC2\KEYPRESS.DLL
Click for more information about this threat : PWS.Hooker.Trojan

Now I dunno how this has happend I've not downloaded anything since last night when I used TS last.

My system's clean as NAV stripped it out I just thought I'd give you a heads up "just in case"
 

Gravl

Full Member
I got the same problem on all three machines.
Ive done system scans on them and found no other problems.

Deleted all the TS files and done a reinstall.
 

Guy

Piper/Leonaedas
From my PlanetSide Outfit forums:

Upon further research, recent updates to virus definition files cause most virus scanners to now recognise the version of keypress.dll distributed with TeamSpeak as a trojan. Now, the TeamSpeak folks are quite up front about the fact that TeamSpeak does send them some information when you use it, strictly so that they can keep track of how many people are using Teamspeak. The actual trojan being detected is one that sends keypress information to a specific destination, so it is likely that this intentionally trojan-like piece of TeamSpeak is now being recognised as an actual trojan.

In other words, nobody hacked your system, or mine. It is just that a piece of TeamSpeak that has been on your system for however long is now being flagged as a trojan. I don't know if TeamSpeak will function without the keypress.dll file. My guess is that the core functionality will be there, but it won't respond to defined keystrokes, such as key-to-talk, so you will have to stick to voice activation.

The TeamSpeak folks are aware of the problem and have compiled a new download of the TeamSpeak client which is not falsely detected as a virus. Simply download it from their site and reinstall. Do not download it from any other site, as you will probably just get the old version. And, obviously, don't reinstall from an old download you have lying around - you'll just get the same thing you already have.
 
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