Virus warning on login.dll

[vizabulb]

In the past few days I am getting a virus warning from AVG about login.dll. Specifically AVG notes that "Detection name";"Trojan horse Dropper.Generic3.UIQ" is found in the login.dll file in my daoc directory.

AVG can remove the file but every time I run portal the warning comes back. A complete scan of my system shows no other infections.

I removed portal, redownloaded it, and still get the same warning.

Any ideas?

[Tolakram]

False warning, probably generated by the way the portal calls the loader. Use at your own risk of course, but I think it's a bad warning.

[vizabulb]

Thanks for the quick response. I could not find any reference to this virus anywhere so that got me worried . I do realize that portal has to do certain things that can set off false warnings.

It is a bit odd that only seems to happen to me though since AVG free is bound to be pretty common.

[THE_Wolfman]

Interesting... because DAoC Portal uses dolloader.exe which injects connection information into game.dll

I just used the DAoC Portal to log into Storm, without any problem, after moving login.dll to my desktop. DAoC Portal doesn't use or even access login.dll at all... only the live servers access/use it.

When you run camelot.exe, it runs login.dll which reads server IP and port information from login.dat and then camelot.exe passes that data along with the account information entered into it, to game.dll (just as tlogin.dll gets information from tlogin.dat when camtest.exe is run). DAoC Portal allows us to connect to private servers without making any modifications to the client by skipping the use of camelot.exe, login.dll, and login.dat to provide information to game.dll.

So, DAoC Portal isn't accessing login.dll and something else is happening on your machine to generate the error.

Did you try using dolloader.exe from the command line or in a batch file?

Example:

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\DAoC Portal\Contents\dolloader.exe" "D:\Games\Labyrinth\game.dll" 127.0.0.1 10300 1 Username Password

This would give you greater control during your troubleshooting, and allow you to see if AVG realtime scanning is taking place on directory access or on file access.