False Positive: Spotify and Skype found, although they are not (and never were) installed

[ccoenen]

This machine I'm working on has been set up from scratch in January. I know very precisely what is installed right now and that I have never had Spotify or Skype installed.

When running this on Windows 10, with Firefox 88.0.1, this is my result:

[darthnithin]

I tested firefox 88.0.1 and Spotify (which isn't installed) is correctly not detected for me. Try going to skype://test see if it does anything.

[ccoenen]

This window comes up:

And when I click "Link öffnen" ("open link") then this happens:

Telling me that nothing can react to skype:// links.

[darthnithin]

Is it possible you had skype installed at one point?

[ccoenen]

I certainly never installed either one. But if they'd have been preinstalled I would probably have removed them by now.

[spalt08]

May be related to #8
Can you look into your windows registry, please? Might be located at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/skype

[ccoenen]

spotify also has a similar entry, there.

[spalt08]

Duplicates #8