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I have an early DVD version of SH3 that includes the Starforce driver in the installation package. I didn't realize that my DVD included the Starforce driver until I saw an error message that said that the Starforce driver was incompatible with my OS.
I searched for and found the Subsim post that describes the process of uninstalling SH3, removing the Starforce driver, re-installing SH3 and the 1.4b patch and replacing the SH3 executable and 4 DLL's with new files from the rld-sh14.rar archive. I followed those instructions to the tee. I was able to perform all of the above steps and successfully run SH3. The first time I started SH3 after working through the above process, the game started just fine. It played the full intro movie without problem and I was able to navigate through the various menus. I exited the game and came back to start SH3 again a few moments later, at which point I got one of those generic, nondescript Windows error messages. After the Windows error message appeared, McAfee Anti-Virus popped an alert saying that it found a virus in Utils.dll and quarantined the file. The odd thing is that after I downloaded the rld-sh14.rar archive, I scanned it with McAfee and McAfee didn't detect any viruses. I am hoping that someone here has a clean, virus free version of the rld-sh14.rar archive. If anyone has a virus free version, please contact me via PM and I'll work with you to transfer the file via some other means. Thank You In Advance, Mike |
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Are you sure that it's actually a virus indication - it could just be McAfee detecting a change, I suppose, to the file. Can you indicate to McAfee that it should (say) ignore the SH3 installation?
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Hi ExFishermanBob, I don't know if McAfee detected a real virus or if it hit on a false positive. McAfee reports that it found a virus or threat, but it doesn't specify which one it is. McAfee reports the threat name, that it was found it in the Utils.dll file in my SH3 installation folder and that the file has been quarantined. I would have expected McAfee to find the virus, if it existed, when I initially scanned the archive before unpacking it, but it didn't.
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McAfee did the same thing to me. I told it to ignore and things ran fine. I did not let McAfee quarantine the file. It gave me an alert every time I fired the game up. I turned McAfee off and ran the game a few times over a couple of days and then turned McAfee back on and it never happened again. I hope your fix is as simple.
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Hi PapaSmurf, I must have McAfee configured wrong, because it automatically quarantined the file before I could do anything about it. I completely uninstalled SH3, so I'll give your suggestion a shot and see what happens when I re-install SH3.
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Yeah BWS, reinstall the game and turn McAfee off and play the game for a few days. Then turn McAfee back on and see what happens. It worked for me. I don't know if McAfee "learned" that the file was safe or what but like I said earlier, it never quarantined the file or gave me any alert after I did that. I have been playing the game for a couple months now since that happened. Good luck.
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BTW: I seen nothing in the thread previous posts as to what operating system you are using in your computer. Best wishes, -clay
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