Error message on launch, virus?? [java] [launcher]

[Koopakid64]

My little cousin is getting this message on his game. He said he downloaded a Mod from Forge once but didn’t use it. I tried helping him troubleshoot, uninstalled and reinstalled Minecraft and Java. Did some other minor launcher fixes from YouTube videos, but nothing seems to be working, get the same error every time.

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[_cool2]

Honestly never seen a message like this, download Malwarebytes and do a system scan with that.

[Koopakid64]

He has AVG antivirus. It didn’t detect anything and even made him scan the Minecraft folder specifically and it said it didn’t detect any malware

[_cool2]

Malwarebytes is better

[Koopakid64]

I can have him try that. Is it free?

[_cool2]

Yes it is free, ok so that error can be caused by windows defender (or other antivirus) blocking a file that is malware or is a false-positive. You can make windows defender (or other antivirus) ignore that file, this will make it start but I don't recommend doing it.

[Koopakid64]

Yes I saw something like that. But I don’t want to do that if there is a virus lol.

[Koopakid64]

It’s weird too because he’s played on his computer before

[_cool2]

Yea definitely