Newsleecher FAQ frequently asked questions

You can get this message for two reasons. The retention of your news server is not sufficient or the download is affected by DMCA. You can try downloading it with another Usenet provider.

Disable your antivirus/security scanners temporarily and try again.

Open the %appdata%\newsleecher folder in Windows Explorer. Then copy the address that is in the address bar of Windows Explorer. And then add this to the whitelist of your virus scanner. The virus scanners below are known to cause problems with
Newsleecher:
Avast
Avg
F-secure
Bitdefender
Kaspersky
Norton

Your Newsleecher version must be 3.8 beta or higher. Otherwise the SSL option is not available. Right-click on your news server and check the SSL box.

This may be because your users or password are incorrect. Or your account is no longer active. Log in to your Usenet provider’s website for more information.

You can get this message if you uses a different IP address. For example, if you share your Usenet provider with someone else.

Yes this is possible you can use the same key for this.

This can be due to several causes. This may be due to your internet provider or your WiFi. You can try increasing the number of connections in Newsleecher from your Usenet provider.

This could be anything from a Modem to a firewall getting in the way. But your Usenet provider may also have problems at the moment.

Delete the download que and try again.

It seems that there are no more updates coming out for Newsleecher. The latest Beta version is from 2019.

No Newsleecher is not free. But you can try a trial version.

See the tutorial Installing Newsleecher Windows.

Nee dit is niet mogelijk. You are better off using SABnzbd or NZGet.

Nee dit is niet mogelijk. You can use NZBGet or SABnzbd on Linux.

You can only do a few searches per day for free. If you want more, you have to pay for it.

Newsleecher may not be able to unpack something this is a known issue Newsleecher doesn’t always handle deliberately misnamed files very well. You then have to change the extension of the smallest file to .par and then start Quickpar. Then unpack it with Winrar. See also the manual Winrar user tutorial Windows for more information.