Cheat Engine

Pingo · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject: Why does it say infected.

Not sure where to post this thread
I'v made two trainers that i wont post because the online scanner say there infected.
16 of the scanners say clean and the other 6 say stuff like this (Tool.GameCrack) or (Trojan.W32.HotKeysHook.A)
One trainer was made with TMK and the other with CE. The machine i made them on is clean and its not even connected to the internet.
oh and i'v never even attempted to make a virus.
But i got to look on the bright side, atleast they work lol

The only difference between one of my other trainers that passed is it didnt have a picture.
These two have. Is this normal? be nice lol

atom0s · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject:

The TMK virus is due to the h@tkey hook that TMK uses for hotkeys. Basically the file is safe, but virus scanners detect it because of what it does. It hooks the keyboard input to determine if a key is pressed. Most virus scanners pick this up as a key logger, but, for the most part you are safe.

As for the CE trainer, it gets detected for various reasons. For one, CE uses a modded version of UPX when it creates trainers. (UPX is a file packer.)

Yes, both are normal to show up like this. These are basically considered "false-positives", while there is no real harm being done, the virus scanner can't determine that on its own, so it warns you about it.

Pingo · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:40 am Post subject:

Cheers for that reply. I had no idea why it was doing that but you explained it. I just dont want people thinking im doing it on purpose. I'll post them up then. One of them is not exactly finished yet but i'll get it up and just update it.

Labyrnth · Moderator Reputation: 10 Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 6301

Take a look in your system32 folder.
You will see a dll file named H@TKEYSH@@K.dll
That is the dll that causes the scans to go nuts.
It gets extracted when you run a trainer by TMK.

Pingo · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:21 pm Post subject:

I posted those trainers. One of them was moved to the flash section and the other one was moved to general game hacking. Im not sure why that one was moved to flash. Its not even a flash game. Its a full install. Both of them work. I just put in the making cause theres alot more that im gonna do to it.