My Minecraft Launcher has been working perfectly for the past two months. It only took one to two seconds for the launcher to load up. I click the Minecraft item on my desktop to start worrying that I may need to restart my comp, as the Launcher loaded for a good minute and a half. After that minute, it appeared on my desktop. Not wanting to see what would happen if I played the game, I closed the window. Right after, a pop-up from Mcafee (which I own) appeared on screen. It told me my computer was at risk and asked if I wanted to know details. I selected details, and Mcafee opened up and it told me my comp was fine. I tried this about four more times, and had the same results. Do you guys know what's going on with my launcher?
Try redownloading the launcher. If it still does the same thing, you need to find out what MacAfee is griping about and find out if its an actual threat, or if if the AV is the reason its slowing down execution.
I just tried logging in and instead of bringing me the game like normal, it just goes to a black screen for about five seconds. I manually closed the program after that. A few seconds later, Mcafee tells me my comp is at risk, I go check it out and it says my comp is fine. I open up scan reports in Mcafee and I learn that it didn't do it's automatic scan like it's supposed to every Monday (which is when I have it set). I close out of Mcafee and it takes about a minute. Bah...
I bet the problem is Mcafee. The darn thing has always been screwing with my computer.
yeah, mcafee is probably blocking the launcher and the game from working right. i had so many problem with it blocking internet access to source engine games and outright disallowing certain programs to run without any way to fix it, i finally just ditched mcafee products all together.
anyhoo, try temporarily uninstalling mcafee and see how MC runs. if you have quite a bit of time left on your mcafee sub, might as well use it up. if not, there's some decent free stuff. i use Avast, but AVG comes highly recommended as well. less hassle, better UI's on both.
Sigh... the comp I use is the family one, so removing programs isn't an option (especially when my parents paid for three years of it, and it's only six months in). I guess I'll wait for an update, if the darn thing lets itself update, lol. I'm assuming a bad update is what did it.
you can try temporarily disabling mcafee's firewall and realtime scanning in the meantime. you might get lucky. i remember trying to play team fortress 2 with mcafee's firewall, every time i had to turn off the firewall because mcafee wouldn't allow a connection to a server even though the application had permission to use the internet.
I'm not even sure if it's on. I'm using Vista, and if you're familiar with Vista's UI, the active programs are in the lower right corner, and where Mcafee almost always is, it isn't. I'd take a look in the Task Manager, but one of the reasons we got Mcafee was that we got a virus that took it away.
if mcafee is installed, it's running unless someone shut it off in windows startup. it even starts itself in safe mode. vista is similar to win 7, so there should be an icon in the "show hidden icons" button on the task bar. if not, you can always open the program thru the start menu.
Sigh... the comp I use is the family one, so removing programs isn't an option (especially when my parents paid for three years of it, and it's only six months in). I guess I'll wait for an update, if the darn thing lets itself update, lol. I'm assuming a bad update is what did it.
If you want to be really sneaky, you can install a second OS instance and have it sort of Dual boot. But personally I don't recommend any subscription based AV on the grounds that they all turn to crap after 3 years. AVG used to be awesome until they went the path of Norton.... and Norton used to be awesome until they decided being a good AV wasn't enough. Avast, Adaware, anything that tries to do more then one thing eventually kills itself.
If you want to be really sneaky, you can install a second OS instance and have it sort of Dual boot. But personally I don't recommend any subscription based AV on the grounds that they all turn to crap after 3 years. AVG used to be awesome until they went the path of Norton.... and Norton used to be awesome until they decided being a good AV wasn't enough. Avast, Adaware, anything that tries to do more then one thing eventually kills itself.
Actually, when my dad was picking out an AV for the comp, I suggested Malwarebytes to which he replied "I don't want free stuff, I want Mcafee", to which I literally started having a laughing fit as soon as I left the room because our comp got a virus and basically killed itself while we had Mcafee.
I can sympathize. Despite my urgings, my dad insists on using Norton 360, or anything else recommended by Kim Kommando.... and then turns to me when an autoupdate turns south, or a web page starts misbehaving.
And FYI for anyone caught in the latest Flash fiasco, apparently the new flash plugin for Firefox is not compatible with a lot of other plugins. So the only known workarounds is to disable flash hardware accel, and disable the Realplayer's video download plugin if you have it installed. Everyone else is still floating in mystery land.
I can sympathize. Despite my urgings, my dad insists on using Norton 360, or anything else recommended by Kim Kommando.... and then turns to me when an autoupdate turns south, or a web page starts misbehaving.
And FYI for anyone caught in the latest Flash fiasco, apparently the new flash plugin for Firefox is not compatible with a lot of other plugins. So the only known workarounds is to disable flash hardware accel, and disable the Realplayer's video download plugin if you have it installed. Everyone else is still floating in mystery land.
I just hope this screwy update doesn't disable the ability to update it again.
I can sympathize. Despite my urgings, my dad insists on using Norton 360, or anything else recommended by Kim Kommando.... and then turns to me when an autoupdate turns south, or a web page starts misbehaving.
And FYI for anyone caught in the latest Flash fiasco, apparently the new flash plugin for Firefox is not compatible with a lot of other plugins. So the only known workarounds is to disable flash hardware accel, and disable the Realplayer's video download plugin if you have it installed. Everyone else is still floating in mystery land.
wait, someone still uses realplayer? winamp ftw!
anyhoo, funrush, tell your dad that that free stuff usually has a paid premium option that offers mcafee security suite level protection and is recommended by many major PC and tech websites. and it's usually cheaper. i had mcafee since i started computing in the late 90's and recently dumped it with more than 6 months left on a sub because their security suite eventually turned into hunk of garbage. the firewall blocks connectivity to legitimate programs, the UI is convoluted and tiny, i've had occasions where parts of the program would stop working or throw errors, even had a bad update once that royal borked my computer for a day. the only thing i still recommend that is mcafee is siteadvisor, especially to people not so good with computers that tend to google a lot and click any old link.
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I bet the problem is Mcafee. The darn thing has always been screwing with my computer.
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anyhoo, try temporarily uninstalling mcafee and see how MC runs. if you have quite a bit of time left on your mcafee sub, might as well use it up. if not, there's some decent free stuff. i use Avast, but AVG comes highly recommended as well. less hassle, better UI's on both.
If you want to be really sneaky, you can install a second OS instance and have it sort of Dual boot. But personally I don't recommend any subscription based AV on the grounds that they all turn to crap after 3 years. AVG used to be awesome until they went the path of Norton.... and Norton used to be awesome until they decided being a good AV wasn't enough. Avast, Adaware, anything that tries to do more then one thing eventually kills itself.
Actually, when my dad was picking out an AV for the comp, I suggested Malwarebytes to which he replied "I don't want free stuff, I want Mcafee", to which I literally started having a laughing fit as soon as I left the room because our comp got a virus and basically killed itself while we had Mcafee.
And FYI for anyone caught in the latest Flash fiasco, apparently the new flash plugin for Firefox is not compatible with a lot of other plugins. So the only known workarounds is to disable flash hardware accel, and disable the Realplayer's video download plugin if you have it installed. Everyone else is still floating in mystery land.
I just hope this screwy update doesn't disable the ability to update it again.
wait, someone still uses realplayer? winamp ftw!
anyhoo, funrush, tell your dad that that free stuff usually has a paid premium option that offers mcafee security suite level protection and is recommended by many major PC and tech websites. and it's usually cheaper. i had mcafee since i started computing in the late 90's and recently dumped it with more than 6 months left on a sub because their security suite eventually turned into hunk of garbage. the firewall blocks connectivity to legitimate programs, the UI is convoluted and tiny, i've had occasions where parts of the program would stop working or throw errors, even had a bad update once that royal borked my computer for a day. the only thing i still recommend that is mcafee is siteadvisor, especially to people not so good with computers that tend to google a lot and click any old link.
Lol?
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