beclient.dll virus

[Mays (DayZ) 154]

My antivirus, Norton, keeps popping up in the corner saying about how beclient.dll was a dangerous virus and that it had protected my pc from it?

Happens everytime I start to join a server, via DayzCommander and Arma 2: OA itself

Edited May 4, 2013 by Mays

[rossums 2190]

There's your problem.

You're using Norton.

beclient.dll is BattlEye, Norton is just being a bit of a spaz.

Edited May 4, 2013 by Rossums

[cheezr 0]

yeah, me too. i went the the security risks, and it says it's an old file that many people have used but it's confirmed as a virus by norton? i restored it anyways and hopefully it's not a virus lol

Edited May 4, 2013 by Cheezrguy

[Mays (DayZ) 154]

There's your problem.

You're using Norton.

beclient.dll is BattlEye, Norton is just being a bit of a spaz.

I've used Norton for the past year of DayZ and this has never happened.

[PK Richie 507]

False positive and can be safely ignored, contact support@battleye.com if you want it confirmed :)

[rossums 2190]

I've used Norton for the past year of DayZ and this has never happened.

Any time BattlEye updates it will replace the beclient.dll file on your computer.

Norton, like most anti-virus programs, has what is called 'heuristic detection' which analyses a file and can look for some generic behaviours and pointers that could hint at the file being malicious.

Any file that uses a global hook to access another application (In this case, DayZ) will often flag false-positive on your anti-virus.

It will probably have detected it as a win32.SomethinginHere.trojan.gen or .downloader.gen (or whateer the generic marker is for Norton) - nothing to worry about though.

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If you are worried it could be malicious you can download the latest legit beclient.dll direct from BattlEye here: http://www.battleye.com/download.html

Edited May 4, 2013 by Rossums

[Mays (DayZ) 154]

False positive and can be safely ignored, contact support@battleye.com if you want it confirmed :)

How do I stop it from keep popping up? :P

Thanks!

[rossums 2190]

How do I stop it from keep popping up? :P

Thanks!

For Norton you generally go to the scan settings and into the Settings/Configure menu -> Scan Exclusions, set the beclient.dll as a Scan Exclusion so Norton will ignore it.

[Mays (DayZ) 154]

For Norton you generally go to the scan settings and into the Settings/Configure menu -> Scan Exclusions, set the beclient.dll as a Scan Exclusion so Norton will ignore it.

Thanks a lot!

[nik21 287]

Contact Symantec about the false positive, otherwise all other Norton users will continue to have this problem.