Kaspersky Anti Virus Detecting a Keylogger
By
MadJack,
Posted on: 2009-12-21 08:33 in Player Questions
IF you are CERTAIN that it's the CoH client being detected and not some other (actual) keylogger being seen while you just so happen to be playing, then I wouldn't worry about it.
(that's a big IF though)
It really wouldn't surprise me that some virus scanners would detect online games as a keylogger, as the behaviour is rather similar.
You press a key...a packet gets generated and sent out to the net...you press another key...another packet goes out...etc
I've never dealt with the particular anti-virus package you are referencing so I can't say for certain. Personally, I'd probably go do some reading on thier own forums looking for false positives that the software is prone to (which often varies quite a bit between different packages).
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Yeah I did some reading on their forums and that is where I saw that it is normal. It did the same thing when I play Star Wars Galaxies, but never popped up anything on me. I'll just go ahead and allow it, maybe some of my lag will go away, doubt it.
Since CoH, like many MMOs, most likely has a sniffing tool to detect client side bot programs, then it's likely for that sniffing tool to be identified as a keylogger, since that's exactly what it's doing.
If CoH is currently *not* running on your computer and Kapersky says that CoH is *actively* and *currently* running as a keylogger.... *then* you can be concerned.
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So I run Kaspersky Anti Virus on my home PC. While playing COH/COV it gives me warning saying that COH/COV is behaving similar to a keylogger. Is this normal? I've read somewhere that it could be normal but I figured I'd ask here.