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   muftwale
   Member

   Came across a very peculiar problem
   While installing antivirus flagged off a message “trying to create a regkey…..allow ?
   regkey was ” Key:
   hklm\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\LNKFILE\SHELLEX\CONTEXTMENUHANDLERS\KASPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS ”
   parameter Supress shell context menu
   didnt no what to do so disallowed
   after installation finished the game try to open nokia ovi suite & message comes ovi suite is trying to send hidden data through net
   After that the game on clicking the icon opens up Ovi suite
   I beleive that all games here are vetted by the board for any illegitimate behaviour including trying to collect user data without its consent.
   Please let me know how do i interpret this & move ahead

   Posted 14 years ago #
2. 

   graylox
   Moderator

   Hi muftwale,
   you can be sure that all games and all software you download from the giveaway project are scanned and clean.

   I don't know nokia ovi suite, so I don't know why the suite was opened.
   I was asked by Kaspersky if Adobe Acrobat is allowed to open the readme file. I denied and the game started.

   graylox

   Posted 14 years ago #
3. 

   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   muftwale, I installed the barricade trial version just to track the installation to see if it meddles with the context menu or file associations, it does not. I did not allow java to install however, but it definitely would. So having ruled out Barricade as the cause I was left with java as the suspect, so I did a search for: nokia ovi suite java

   The first two postings at an ovi support forum show that it and java conflict over ownership of the the .jar filetype. I thus presume that you did install java after the game but that you prevented java software from taking ownership of the jar filetype association during installation. When you tried to run the game, which is a .jar file like most java applications, it tried to run via ovi instead of java and thus you saw activity from ovi.

   I presume it's all a matter of the .jar filetype being associated with the wrong program, right now your jars open in ovi rather than the java virtual machine. You will need to wrangle your associations, you may have an ongoing battle with ovi or you may be able to do something like in the first link below.

   You could also probably launch the jar with a new shortcut that doesn't rely on associations, but rather something like "javaw -jar whatever.jar" or "java -jar whatever.jar" or something else, you'd have to research it, I don't deal with java.

   ref:

   http://superuser.com/questions/200680/i-seem-to-have-broken-java-after-installing-nokia-ovi-suite

   http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Discussion/showthread.php?184259-How-to-prevent-OVI-Suite-from-hijacking-JAR-filetype-extension

   http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/t5/Nokia-Suite/bug-with-ovi-suite-2-2-1-23-and-java-programs/td-p/785764

   Posted 14 years ago #
4. 

   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Thank you for clearing this up ZF. Two users mentioned this conflict during the giveaway, bit of wwhich ran Nokia sopftware on their computers.

   Posted 14 years ago #
5. 

   lilypooch
   Member

   My problem with Barricade 3.5 (any version) is that it will lock up and freeze my computer when I have the sound enabled. I have to manually shut down and reboot each time. I have the latest version of Java for Windows XP. I do not have the Okia Ovi suite installed, therefore, it is not that conflict. Any suggestions? Thanks!

   Posted 14 years ago #
6. 

   mikiem2
   Moderator

   My problem with Barricade 3.5 (any version) is that it will lock up and freeze my computer when I have the sound enabled. I have to manually shut down and reboot each time. I have the latest version of Java for Windows XP. I do not have the Okia Ovi suite installed, therefore, it is not that conflict. Any suggestions? Thanks!

   Hopefully someone else has had that or a very similar problem & their fix will work. In the mean time, I can't see it hurting making sure your Java setup is working properly, & may fix things for you as well. It's not uncommon to have more than one version of Java installed, or parts of old versions etc., & there are tools to check for that sort of thing, remove the old bits, remove everything so you can re-install Java [e.g. Javara] & so on. Whether someone comes up with a specific fix or not, I don't think it'd hurt making sure your installed Java is in good shape.

   Posted 14 years ago #

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