12-11-2013, 06:00 PM
I was having this issue when I started experimenting with Minion just yesterday. For Windows Defender (Microsoft Security Essentials), I do believe the real-time protection blocks the program injection (contrary to what the tutorial states), so you have two choices:
Go to Defender/MSE and go to the last tab "Settings".
1) Here, either disable real-time protection (easier, not my personal recommendation), or,
2) Set both FFIV.exe and minon's launcher program under "Excluded files and locations" and "Excluded processes". To do this, click into those two areas and click "Browse", locate FFIV.exe from your FF install directory and click "Ok". Do this again for the minion executable. Then click "Add" and finally click "Save Changes".
I list them in this order because if you disable real-time protection and minion DOES work, that strongly implies that your issue is related to Defender/MSE. In which case, you can re-enable Defender/MSE and try step 2) instead and see if that works. The obvious benefit of this is that you are not completely disabling your security in order to get minion to work.
Hope this helps.
Go to Defender/MSE and go to the last tab "Settings".
1) Here, either disable real-time protection (easier, not my personal recommendation), or,
2) Set both FFIV.exe and minon's launcher program under "Excluded files and locations" and "Excluded processes". To do this, click into those two areas and click "Browse", locate FFIV.exe from your FF install directory and click "Ok". Do this again for the minion executable. Then click "Add" and finally click "Save Changes".
I list them in this order because if you disable real-time protection and minion DOES work, that strongly implies that your issue is related to Defender/MSE. In which case, you can re-enable Defender/MSE and try step 2) instead and see if that works. The obvious benefit of this is that you are not completely disabling your security in order to get minion to work.
Hope this helps.