Crossfire's coming in like a virus

Malgandan

No offense, z8games, but I blame it on you.

Crossfire used to be my FAVOURIITE FPS. I loved it! Since I got a Headset, I'm thinking of playing on XFire with other players, but somehow now I cannot even run the install.exe Whenever I do, explorer.exe crashes, and I can't click on anything else, and even my desktop with no windows crash. And whenever I try deleting the executable, it says I have no rights. I'm on an administrative account!! I had to go to Owner to delete it.

When I do get a chance to launch install.exe, though, nothing pops up. It shows the exe in Task Manager, but nothing shows.

It is like a virus. Crashes my computer and is hard to delete. I've tried EVERY mirror, from the official ones to Brothersoft/Download.com to even torrenting, but it's still the same thing.

Long ago, it used to install perfectly, same computer, but on subagames.
Oh, how I miss subagames

Anyways, system specs

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+
2.09 GHz Performance Rated at: 4.18 GHz
1.7GB RAM
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, 32-bit (Build Service Pack 26002)
ATI Radeon X1250
DirectX 10.0
Realtek High Definition Audio

ItsMyKnife

This has nothing to do with the game.. it has something to do with your computer. Could be a number of reasons. What errors do you get?

crossfireXPS

Try re-downloading it and re-installing it. If that doesn't work then scan for viruses.

[MOD]Zzxq

you need to shut down anti virus and firewall during installatin of the game.

hauk933

You probably have a virus on your computer...

[Greycloak]

It sounds very much like you have a virus on the computer.

Unknown

Umm, I believe I had the same problem, but mod dead helped me out. It was because I got crossfire setup using Mozilla Firefox. Try deleting crossfire setup and uninstall files if you have. Then get Crossfire from internet explore.

Unknown

Tell me if it works.

Malgandan

ItsMyKnife wrote: »

This has nothing to do with the game.. it has something to do with your computer. Could be a number of reasons. What errors do you get?

No errors, everything just crashes.

crossfireXPS wrote: »

Try re-downloading it and re-installing it. If that doesn't work then scan for viruses.

The thing is, I've downloaded every mirror and I can't even open the install.exe

vaporizer420 wrote: »

you need to shut down anti virus and firewall during installatin of the game.

It isn't a virus, or... at least I think it isn't

[MOD]Greycloak wrote: »

It sounds very much like you have a virus on the computer.

Maybe I do, but I scanned with Windows Live OneCare and nothing came up

DDoTt2 wrote: »

Umm, I believe I had the same problem, but mod dead helped me out. It was because I got crossfire setup using Mozilla Firefox. Try deleting crossfire setup and uninstall files if you have. Then get Crossfire from internet explore.

I will try that when I get home (I'm at school)

Malgandan

K I tried virus scanning but it came up with no results. So I’m certain I have no virus. Plus, it’s only doing this with Crossfire

Monkey_Master

press CTRL + ALT + DEL and at the very bottom of the task manager it should say CPU usage run it then check if your CPU usage shoots up if so then thats the problem and try using other anti-viruses to scan for viruses not just one try norton, AVG and McAfee