Random installers programs launching when searching

[AshkoreDracson]

Hello!

I have installed KeyPirinha today and I love it! But I have notice a quite strange bug that seems to happens whenever you search for something for the first time.
For example, KeyPirinha will launch, I will then search for something, and in the middle of typing my query, some installer program will launch to proceed to uninstall some program.

Here is an example of the issue by typing "q" that launches QuickTime uninstaller anywhere from 1 to 5 times in a row!
Example video

I also get the same problem when starting to type "py", and it launches each python uninstaller once, one after the other.

Whenever those uninstallers have been launch at least once, reproduction of this bug is extremely inconsistent, and I have to relaunch KeyPirinha in order for it to happen again, but it's pretty annoying nonetheless.

I am running on Windows 10 Home x64, and it does this problem both on the Portable and Installed version.

Also there is no console output when this bug happens. I also don't have any third-party packages installed, it's a fresh install.

[LordYui]

Can confirm this. We were trying the soft together, and we ran into exactly the same issue.
Here's my recording of it happening (it cuts off at the end, because UAC decided to shut off my screen recorder)

For some reasons, trying to type "Command" ended up in trying to uninstall {smartassembly}
Same thing, I was able to get it to reproduce two or three times, and now it just seems to work, I'll need to use it more to see if it comes back.

Definitely happened in both portable & installed mode. My friend was running a fresh install, and I was using the SystemCommands plugin.

I run Win10 Family on a laptop, I did not think of checking the console while the bug was still happening (sorry 'bout that).

[ueffel]

Seems to be the similar problem as #108
I also had a colleague, who had this problem but he couldn't reproduce it consistently

[polyvertex]

TL;DR: Hi, thanks for taking the time to report this in such a detailed way. I will install QuickTime and see if I manage to reproduce the issue consistently enough to be able to find a workaround. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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KP's code does not explicitly launches anything unless the end-user wants to, so obviously this is done indirectly. Your screen captures suggest a tiny clue that it might be related to the icons extraction method. This really is just a wild guess.

To extract the icon from an executable, KP calls first the LoadLibraryEx function, which is part of Windows API. However in theory, no code execution should occur especially because those flags are used: LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_IMAGE_RESOURCE | LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE.

[polyvertex]

Update: I'm on Win8.1, I installed both QuickTime and smartassembly but cannot manage to reproduce the issue at all. Perhaps it's Win10-specific?

So if anyone manages to reproduce this consistently, please jump in.

[polyvertex]

Update 2: it sounds like only MSI installers are involved in this issue, do you confirm?

If yes, my best bet is that it is related to the introspection of some *.lnk shortcut files created by the MSI installer (still in the icon extraction method). And in that case, I can attempt to fix this blindly for the soon-to-be-released version.

[AshkoreDracson]

Yep it seems to be MSI installers only, so far I got a few versions of Python uninstallers that show up, and the quicktime uninstaller.
So my guess is indeed whenever those show up, when trying to get the icon or something it does run it for some reason.

[polyvertex]

Fix "attempt" applied in v2.12 :)
Please check it out.
I'm closing this but do not hesitate to report any trouble related to this issue here.