Its on both my XP and Vista, I have shut down my A/V I have disabled all the windows firewall/defender crap, still nothing. I can play with the ones already installed but thats it.
Is there a specific RTG you can give as an example.
I have installed ClubWorld on my new XP machine (Yes, bought one month before Vista became compulsory
), as well as VIP.com, which is a bit "non standard RTG". I had McAfee firewall & antivirus ON all the time. I have found that it will ask permission for new programs to connect to the internet, and the user can either say "just this once", "always", or "not on your nellie matey" to the software. This option to ask CAN BE SWITCHED OFF, meaning that the installation will be rejected without you knowing WTF happened!
It seems more a matter of configuring your firewall and AV, rather than turning it off altogether. Security software sees online casinos as "malware" by default, due to the way they behave (as in MISbehave) in order to thrust themselves onto those who never knew they had a need to gamble until they were told so.
I have noticed that even current casinos, mainly Microgaming, will trigger the "ask permission" screen whenever they attempt to upgrade from a new upgrade server IP, as permissions are given for specific IP addresses.
If the settings are to deny always, or to deny based on default criteria, one of the symptoms is indeed that the casino (particularly MG) will launch, and then disengage (vanish) after a few seconds without any kind of error message, the same behaviour you would see if you were not online when attempting to launch the software.
Norton is a terrible pain in the a$$ with this, but McAfee seems more tolerant and informative (I have a trial Norton on my away machine, and it is forever frightening my mum, and scuppering her sessions; worse, I can't seem to remove it as the add/remove function never displays the software list
Well, it IS a DELL, so I expect nothing different. I will take the "DELL DeCrapper utility to it one day, as all the "trials" have now expired.