My friend is having a launcher error and here it is. To report this error, provide: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.connect0(Native Method) at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Unknown Source) at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source) at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source) at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source) at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source) at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source) at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source) at com.skcraft.launcher.bootstrap.HttpRequest.execute(HttpRequest.java:115) at com.skcraft.launcher.bootstrap.Downloader.execute(Downloader.java:64) at com.skcraft.launcher.bootstrap.Downloader.run(Downloader.java:38) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) It might be his anti virus, but I have no idea. Thank you
Strongly believe this is an antivirus problem if it's supposedly blocking connections and permissions are denied to do so.