newsbin.com

10/10/2014

Getting multiple reports of people's Newsbin just spontaneously not working with this popup message. What we believe is happening is that a new virus definition has come out and falsely tagged "Language.dll" and maybe "Language64.dll" as viral, thus moving them, out of the newsbin install folder. Newsbin won't run without these files.

Dexter has run 40 some odd virus scanners against the file and had only on false positive from ClamAV which claimed it found "PUA.Win32.Packer.BorlandDelphi-1". Newsbin doesn't use Delphi.

If you're having this problem. You need to get the language.dll and get it back into the Newsbin install folder. I'm not sure how to tell a V scanner to leave these files alone.

But you are absolutely right...

I just checked the Avast Virus Vault and Avast has quarantained the Languanuage.dll file yesterday.

From a user today

Quade wrote:Getting multiple reports of people's Newsbin just spontaneously not working with this popup message. What we believe is happening is that a new virus definition has come out and falsely tagged "Language.dll" and maybe "Language64.dll" as viral, thus moving them, out of the newsbin install folder.

FYI, I just scanned the 3314 (6.54B1) "languagex64.dll" on both major online test sites and it came up clean on everything so either the false positive was only the 32-bit version or they've fixed it.

I see that currently VirusTotal have Avast definition files from 11 Oct while Jotti have Avast defintion files from 10 October so one or the other "ought to" replicate the Avast failure that you got reported later if you tried it on the 32-bit file. Unless of course it's one of the dreaded "the program did something the AV think is suspicious" Heuristic which can only trigger while the program is running, they're absolutely horrible in every single way.

There's considerable overlap between the two sites, but each have some unique AVs and with slightly different bugs and usually slightly different definition update schedules they offer really good coverage when combined (do try "rescan" if they offer an old scan).

Quade may well already have one or both in his toolkit, but it's a good resource to know about for everyone.

http://virusscan.jotti.org/en
https://www.virustotal.com/

Dex does that stuff. I don't even have a V scanner installed on this machine. I'll point him at this topic.

Thanks.

If you use a decent V-scanner/anti-malware/anti-rootkit like I do, I can simply whitelist the file and it is ignored.
Not much but I hope it helps.