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The vital key is this line -- "After following the mitigation guide, this software is Not Spyware." Which is technically the case for ALL WEB BROWSERS. Us here at MSFN "know better", but for the most part a web browser user simply uses "default settings" (for the most part).

Greetings. Thank you for Your attention and my best wishes to You. "These aren't the droids you're looking for." (c) Problem is to force ProxiMII certificate as trusted for program, that didn't allow this from settings and didn't use Windows certificate store. I can't figure out how an abstract program works with https - i need to investigate this specimen :-). curl mostly uses ".curlrc" (in variaty of names for customs builds) and "cacert.pem" (idem) OpenSSL is a Unix things - it's wide use config files and environment variables. But which settings was forced during compiling time? Is it was linked statically or dynamically? Does it use one of openssl.cnf, cacert.pem, SSL_DIR_PATH, SSL_FILE_PATH? Best regards.

BREAKING NEWS: GOOGLE CHROME IS SPYWARE!!! https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/chrome A serious forum like MSFN should discourage any discussion of this capitalist PUP - or not?

Slimjet is made by FlashPeak, a company based in Austin, Texas. I did not “promote” it: Merely pointed out that it is currently based on Chromium 109, so obviously supports Windows 7 at least until hypothetical version 39 is released. I haven’t used Slimjet since 2016, at which time they backported Chromium 50, 51 and 53 for the benefit of Windows Vista. BTW neither Russia nor China is a communist society in the 21st century - which is not to say they are not authoritarian regimes that pose a threat to the West. Speaking of Russia, does anyone know what version of Chromium the current Yandex 23 browser is based on? I can’t seem to find that information and have no wish to install the browser, but MSFN is an international forum so others may feel differently.

you may just install chatzilla extension instead.

That page is weird. common ie is spyware.. ? https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/explorer

Hello @roytam1! Even though there are members here who don't appreciate weekly updates of your browsers, I would like to thank you for your regular browser releases, the time you spend on them and your enthusiasm. You maintain so many projects with an incredible continuity that is quite impressive. New Moon 28 and Serpent are my main browsers in Windows XP. And they even work with YouTube on older computers, where 360Chrome is a total failure. Many thanks for that!

Sweet Dreams ...

And good night to you @XPerceniol and all of you, here it is just after midnight.

Will try, thank you.

So. we must increase the ratio and tip the scale from 10% feelings of being hopeful and slowly increase decrease the 90% and chalk up to a dark day as just that and tomorrow is another day. Hopefully if you do things and as @msfntor wrote - take action - and the dark days should become less-and-less until they are not more. I'm working on this too and thank you for sticking around (both the forum and in real life) You can't be happy all the time and you can't be sad all the time. Through darkness you see the light. I feel better today.

Hi everyone.

So Mina, you must be happy! Nice conditions to study, live! NO PROBLEMS.

Tell me, do you live with your family? Does your mother give you food 3 times a day? Or not? Sorry for this personal question.

Be positive, never negative. Every day, always.

But wouldn't that apply to most of the Firefox Forks here at MSFN? I thought that Serpent 52 was "better" then Serpent 55?

Ah, that explains it. "Good" ones run at mere 6 FPS while "bad" ones run at 30 FPS (check stats for nerds, frame rate is listed after resolution).

We are experiencing a new wave of spammers that is not unique to MSFN and is happening on other forums as well. These spammers will post about cryptocurrency. However, in addition to new users doing this, some of these spammers have been able to hijack or compromise existing user accounts and make a spam post. When we find an existing user that posts this type of spam, we will apply a 0 point warning on your account so that we can restrict posting. The warning reason will indicate that this has happened. Then you can PM the mod who sent you the warning and they will confirm that it is you and advise that you change your password. After this, the moderator can restore your posting ability.

Terrence K. Williams @w_terrence Jan 31

Terrence K. Williams @w_terrence Jan 27 What in the Im a Chihuahua trapped in a Humans body is going on. I’m moving to Mars. @elonmusk hurry up and get us there because the Earth is going crazy. Lord Jesus Take The Wheel

- What is she saying, please? Can you transcribe, please? Mental illness

And your another sad quote: "I wish I wasn't born at all. I feel sick and hopeless and I just want *out*." Uh, you must be twice as old as 50... at least, what you say sounds like the words of a centenarian in bad shape... aren't you exaggerating? Get your strength back and don't swallow so many weird drugs the doctor gave you...I think. Take Clint Eastwood's example: https://twitter.com/ClintEastwoo_ - "Getting younger everyday" “My mule don’t like people laughing” #BroncoBilly 1980

What are you saying... get a grip and act! You are a young man, you are not yet 100 years old, so in the Plain Forces, act every day, start now.

Looks like I can use: localhost/ $TYPE(htm) Had no idea about it - somehow this page was hiding from me: https://proxomitron.info/45/help/Matching-Commands.html (linked from https://proxomitron.info/45/help/Matching-Rules.html) https://www.prxbx.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=2074

That's a very clever project. You reported an issue in Pale Moon, and they checked it in browsers based on Chromium.

Someone mentioned webcompat.com, f****** WORTHLESS unless you spot an issue in Chrome, Chrome, or Chrome. I even linked well-written technical explanation by Moonchild... https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/117488

Respectfully, I beg to differ ... Google do come up with new JS drafts and are very swift to implement them into their own browser monopoly ... Adherence to well-established web standards is a lesser concern to them - they practically control themselves the W3C board, so everything "new" and "fancy" they devise will find its way into a "revised"/updated Web Standard ... TL:DR: Google aren't better at "complying" to web standards; they "own" "www" with their monopoly and can do "as they please" with web standards... As the majority of current mainstream browsers are Chromium-based, what Google do dictates what the rest are forced to do... Mozilla are funded by Google, their "current" Gecko engine aspires to be a Chromium fork; so, Firefox also adopts what Google have already implemented a while back into their browser (a policy known as "Chrome-parity") ... That leaves ALL the rest browser choices (non-Chromium/non-Firefox) lagging behind in Web Compatibility...

That's out of context and not exactly what I said. I "appreciate" the weekly updates even if I don't update every week. I do download every week, update in a VirtualBox, and decide for myself if the host OS also requires the update.

No (the site employs dynamic module import, "import()", very unlikely to be implemented in UXP platform any time soon ) ... ... Of course it does! https://caniuse.com/es6-module-dynamic-import

Everyone, thank you for the help, yes, sorry I know I had to read first. Everything was in the tutorilal.

Ideally, ungoogled-chromium would be the best option. Also I'm still not sure why someone didn't take a backup of the svn/git repo of the last known working compile for win7 along with the build tools, that would at least make it easier to analyse the source at a fixed point in time and perhaps backport things.

I think you could use any other antivirus except a couple of German products (Avira and Emsisoft) that have already ended support for 7 and 8. Edit: McAfee still supports 8.1, but not 8.0 or 7. https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103148&page=shell&shell=article-view

I preferred much older versions of Ccleaner from before Avast/AVG took over Piriform in 2017. Version 5.64 had annoying nagware. Ccleaner’s end of support was discussed in a Windows XP thread March 2020. Of course there are other similar products (there’s a list on page 1, and shelby just mentioned another one on page 74 of this rapidly-growing thread which is not about software that requires the extended kernel to work).

There are already multiple versions compiled with QT5 and fully working on Win7. First one you can grab here: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/405407-NON-OFFICIAL-Windows-builds-of-MKVtoolnix/page3#post2672418 Second one here: https://github.com/jpsdr/MKVToolnix-QT5-Windows-7 The first version seems to be updated regularly and available few hours or days after official release. It is opensource, so everybody can do this.

why do you want that to work again i'm just confused

Of course Qihoo 360 was a well-known antivirus before the company made a Chromium fork, and afaik it still fully supports XP/Vista (not just definition updates for some legacy version). Tencent is another big Chinese company that makes an AV. I have no plans to try either myself...

For Vista x86, my policy has long been to keep DEP enabled for all programs as a general security precaution. I have reason to believe that DEP once saved me from a FlashPlayer exploit, and does not interfere with MBAM Free. Of course DEP only protects against threats that cause buffer overflows to force execution of malicious code, and IDK whether any such threats have targeted legacy MBAM specifically.

@VistaLover your information is accurate as always! I quote myself rather than you only because I feel that your defense of Malwarebytes was disproportionate to my perceived attack. What bothers me about the specific Malwarebytes link I cited is that it seems to exploit the ambiguity of the term “support” in order to sell more Malwarebytes Premium licenses. Call me old school if you like, but if a software vendor hasn’t issued a new version that works on your OS for 3 years, then IMO that vendor cannot properly be said to “support” your OS (unless there are truly two separate development channels, in which case your version number should change occasionally). The world’s largest third-party AV maker (Avast/AVG) seems to agree with my point of view. A few months after the Malwarebytes post cited by VistaLover, Avast promised to continue definition updates (but nothing else) in a post with the honest title End of support for Windows XP/Vista (which btw has official download links for version 18.8). This did not prevent Avast from doing something rather significant on behalf of 2008/Vista in June 2019: issuing a micro-update for improved compatibility with Windows 6.0.6003 (which is somewhat OT here in the XP forum). I hope I don’t sound too much like an Avast fanboy. I certainly wish there were numerous good options for XP/Vista, but the pickings are getting rather slim nowadays I’m afraid.

I know for a fact that the component package version hasn’t changed in two years, and it most likely hasn’t changed since 3.5.1 was released on May 8, 2018. Therefore I cannot take Malwarebytes seriously when they claim to be “committed to continue support for Windows XP and Vista“ - but don’t get me wrong: Definition updates are certainly better than nothing! Since this thread has been bumped, I will summarize some of the bad news I’ve heard in the last several months: As pointed out by VistaLover in a recent post, versions of McAfee antivirus products that were old enough to work on XP/Vista have reportedly been unable to receive definition updates since January 1, 2021. Earlier in this thread, legacy versions of ESET were occasionally mentioned as an option. Unfortunately, an ESET article indicates that SHA-2 support is now extremely important. If we have any recent ESET users here, please tell us about your experiences! (As I have mentioned once or twice in the Vista forum, ESET 12.x might perhaps be an option for a Vista system with certain Server 2008 updates adding SHA-2 support.) Norton had threatened to cut off definition updates for their XP/Vista “maintenance mode” version after February 28, 2021, but evidently changed its mind by March 8. I don’t recommend or even know much about Webroot, but have come across their official download page for the final XP-compatible version. None of the products I mention above have free versions!? My own preference and suggestion would still be Avast Free 18.8 (or equivalent AVG version, which has the same engine). Of course that would not prevent you from using Malwarebytes Free for on-demand scanning if you wish. I know that Dave-H couldn’t use Avast on one of his XP systems, which is too bad because testing by independent labs showed that Avast Free was significantly more effective than Malwarebytes Premium or Webroot, and nearly as good as paid versions of Kaspersky, Norton, etc. (Kaspersky Free has never been tested AFAIK.)