Possible Virus In TeamSpeak

[Marvin]

See, Remo, I wasn't crazy. Not completely, anyway.

From the TeamSpeak website:

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Background

As of about a week ago, many users within the Teamspeak community informed us of a possible virus issue -- specifically with the "keypress.dll" file which is installed by the Teamspeak client.

The Problem

Since we were informed of this issue the Teamspeak Team has been heavily involved in trying to determine the accuracy of this claim. After rigorous internal testing and numerous phone calls into all of the major antivirus companies including Symantec (Norton Antivirus), Network Associates (McAfee), and Trend Micro, NONE of these companies can verify NOR deny that a virus actually exists in "keypress.dll".

To the best of our collective knowledge, it is so far more likely that this is a "false positive" -- meaning that the antivirus application is finding data in keypress.dll that LOOKS like the same sort of data found in an infected file containing the Trojan "PWS-Wexd" (virus)...even though the file is most likely not infected at all.

If you are still truly concerned that this may actually be a virus, please try visiting the following link:

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp...&virus_k=100476

This URL contains detailed information on the PWS-Wexd Trojan, including a section on "indications of infection" -- which we have meticulously verified so far do NOT exist on anyone's supposed infected computer.

The Solution

At this time we have put together a new Teamspeak client installation executable which you may download from:

ftp://teamspeak.krawall.de/releases/ts2_client_rc2_2032.exe

Simply shutdown your Teamspeak client if it is running and re-install Teamspeak using this executable right on top of your existing installation and the problem should go away. It is NOT necessary to first uninstall your existing Teamspeak client and you will also NOT lose your current Address Book and other client settings.

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Note: The link at the website for the new DL might not work. If it doesn't, try the one in the quote above ... it was taken from a part of the TeamSpeak forum and worked for me.

That is, unless whoever installed the Trojan has now shut down the authentic links and redirected to another trojan patch. Hmmmm. N/J.

[Guest Remo Williams]

Hehe good find but as I thought its more than likely a false detection. If you have firewall software running then you would know if something is trying to connect to the internet to send info to a hacker waiting for your goodies.

[Supreme Cmdr]

Its not a virus, just a false detection by Norton AV. Just download there new RC2 update.