Everquest Patcher Freak OutFollow

Ok, this is really weird. I downloaded the update for the new expansion and all "heck" has broken loose on my computer since. First, when I restarted my computer the everquest patcher is launching all by itself. WTF is that all about. But it gets better. My McAfree software got itself somehow shut down in the process and I had to reinstall that. On top of all that I was getting this message upon rebooting as well, "that c:\program needed to be renamed to c:\program1 to fix a problem" and I had the choice to do that or ignore. So of course before I went to work this morning I tried checking on a fix for it with the EQ box repoping up every 5 minutes after I cancelled and closed the box. So I uninstalled EQ from the install/uninstall function. That didnt stop the EQ patch program from loading so I had to delete my everquest folder. WOW!! So is it just me or is anybody else asking help from tech??? Oh and by the way I used "hijackthis" and it didnt show anywhere how in the heck that the launcher program was starting which makes this even stranger.

sounds like like someohow your eq patch is in your start up menu.

goto: start/search/type in msconfig/ run msconfig/ uncheck the eq patcher file.

must say that just after i downloaded the second patch of the expansion I got a "device failure" and my pc went nuts too :-D

Did a norton doc, ect ect and now 8crosses fingers* all seems well

Ok after seeing the message a good ummmmmmm 20 times through the reboots I decided to write it down just in case it will help someone else here it is...

File Name Warning

There is a file or folder on your computer called "C:\program" which could cause certain applications to not function correctly. Renaming it to "C:\program1" would solve this problem, would you like to rename it now?

I shut down all of the startup programs (hence getting to see the message 20 times, more actually) one by one and yet the launchpad was still starting up everytime on its own. I had to go into the services tab of msconfig and shut down any program that wasn't microsoft to stop it. I then turned them back on one by one to find out that the service that was cross linked is:

McAfee WSC Intergration

The only file that I could find under the registry editor was "McDetect.exe". I searched further by that but could not find any other files linked to it although "c:\program" must be through a .DLL somehow.

I will give an additional update after I get the final patch and then reinstall McAfee to see if it fixes my problem. Hope this helps anybody else who has the complete McAfee Suite as I do from Comcast my internet/cable provider, although I certainly hope that Sony fixes this in their next patch.

Thanks for the informative posts jwbradd. I had a similar problem with the free antivirus program AVG way back when PoP was released, and it was maddening!. Good job with the detail on both the error and fix: I gave you an excellent on your ratings!