[FALSE POSITIVE]DCS World 2.6 trojan? worldgeneral.dll

[OnionSpider13]

Same issues with McAfee. Adding DCS to the list of excepted applications isn't fixing the problem.

[blueskunk]

seems they solved the problem.

 

 

 

i started the game up today with no troubles at all. i have no idea what has changed, i didnt change settings in antivirus, nor did i do any update or repair.

 

 

 

... glad it's working again.

[Greyman]

Has your AV been updated, as they might have just got rid of the false positive?

[Skyracer]

Hi

 

it is likely a false positive from your antivirus.

 

Excluding DCS and ruining a cleanup and repair will help.

 

Thanks

 

I wish it was that easy!

 

Its likely your incompetence that made this happen. You should be very happy that their is no competition between modern jet fighter sims.

Edited February 16, 2020 by Skyracer

[Skyracer]

I have done cleanup, repair, excluding dcs from AV but no success.

 

ED fix your shit!

[Gaso373]

WORLDGENERAL.DLL

 

Hi guys,

 

I try to install the ''FA-18C_Battle_Group_Delta_v20191230'' campaign using the guidelines from the first post. Unfortunately i realize a little late that the campaign is taking place on Gulf map which i dont have.

 

The problem is when i try to undo all that i have done and launch the beta application i had an ''worldgeneral.dll'' file is missing error report.

 

I delete it from the c drive and and try to reinstall it but i m getting the same error report. (I attache the report).

 

Any ideas how i can fix that?

autoupdate_log.zip

[Silversmith]

Check your antivirus quarantine files ... Lots of folk on the 2.5.6. update are having ''worldgeneral.dll'' detected as virus infected and deleted into quarantine. Looks like the new DRM is spooking many anti-virus programs. What version are you on? 2.5.5 or the new 2.5.6

[Gaso373]

2.5.6

[norbot]

Same problem with G DATA AntiVirus. "Worldgeneral.dll" is falsely detected as a virus. Just excluded it form the scanlist. Problem solved.

[Gaso373]

I switch off my anti virus run repair and now i get ''the application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000043).

 

WTF??????

[Buzzf18e]

My McAfee detected something different it was noted as JIT/Suspect.196612!8d59ae9868aa and found in G:Eagle Dynamics\DCS WOrld OpenBeta\bin\DCS.exe. Why is DCS piggybacking a virus with a game update, what the heck is THAT? Needless to say after this incident I've become wary of buying anything else from this company . . . .

Edited February 16, 2020 by Buzzf18e

[Skyracer]

I switch off my anti virus run repair and now i get ''the application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000043).

 

WTF??????

 

Same but i have 0xc0000022.

[elmo]

Having same issues with Sophos... Each time i start dcs I get alerts.... For all my installed modules since update

[norbot]

Version 2.5.6 seems to produce a false virus warning on the file "Worldgeneral.dll". Just exclude it form the scanlist and run a repair of DCS World.

 

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=263368

[shastasm]

Virus in latest version

 

Hello.

 

I just recently updated to the latest version of Beta. Is it possible that a virus is transferred through the servers. My virus protection keeps quarantine the DCS.exe file with the following virus code: Suspect!8dS9ae9868aa

 

If I unquarantine it, the virus software just keeps blocking it. Also have tried to update/clean through the DCS Utility Tool.

 

Advise needed please

[norbot]

It's a false virus alarm: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=263368

[theIRIEone]

I can confirm for Malwarebytes what other users reported for other AVs now:

 

Problem is solved, apparently by means of an update on the AV side of things.

 

DCS working again without whitelisting / setting exclusions

[ex81]

And your reply is to attack me personally and imply i am stupid because i am not an IT guru like you (I assume?).

 

Never before i had false positives with any game nor DCS but only with this patch. The game wouldn’t even load. So this patch had a big change on something with exes and dlls that makes av go crazy - along with all the other bugs and major performance issues vr and 2d.

 

So yeah i blame the game developer

 

 

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Well said !

I am simply a customer and I want to play a game, not to study IT or whatever it`s called.

[Anatoli-Kagari9]

Its fine with ESET AV.

 

No problems with Windows Defender either.

[shastasm]

Thanks for the link. For those of you having the same problem in McAfee, Restore the quarantine DCS.exe, then add the DCS.exe file under the bin folder to your excluded files under the PC Security, real-time scanning. Hopefully, DCS and McAfee will work on this issue in the future.

[GeneralDynamics]

I can confirm that Kaspersky Total Security no longer deletes WorldGeneral.dll after removing the exclusion and re-running a file AV scan of the bin folder.

[Skyracer]

I can confirm that Kaspersky Total Security no longer deletes WorldGeneral.dll after removing the exclusion and re-running a file AV scan of the bin folder.

I can confirm this to.

[BIGNEWY]

I can confirm this to.

 

Good to hear, thanks

[Vtec9k]

Same with Emsisoft.

 

Worldgeneral.dll seems to be triggering a few ML detections, very likely false positives but def worth the team looking into it.

[Greyman]

McAfee is still reporting the DCS.exe as containing malware

 

EDIT: The latest patch seems to have fixed the false positive issue. Thanks

Edited February 21, 2020 by Greyman