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... The "free of charge for home use only" download requires you "agree to send statistics related to the scanning process and your PC's software and hardware configuration to Doctor Web", else no free download ; more here ...

Okay, I believe the problem lies with the .NET Framework - I'll just have to do some digging to figure out what's going on. Whatever it is, I'm almost certain it's the same thing that's causing every security update(legacyupdate.net) for all .NET Framework versions to fail on my system. I'm afk at the moment, but I had the updates running one more time before I left. I'll check in on them when I get back, and will let you know if it miraculously works while I'm gone. BTW thanks for all your help so far guys!

MWAV - eScan Antivirus Toolkit is an antivirus/antimalware offline scanner for a manual checking of the computer and cleaning if necessary. WiseVector StopX is an AI based antivirus program with a background guard, but its development has stopped, unfortunately So they are completely different and not easy to compare. You will find only a few tests of both tools in the internet. They are not as well known as the AV programs produced by big antivirus manufacturers. MWAV is a good tool, easy to handle and is updated on a regular base. I do trust it. For more information, follow this link to its English homepage: https://www.escanav.com/en/mwav-tools/download-free-antivirus-toolkit.asp If you are looking for an antivirus program with real-time protection under Windows XP, you can try Panda Dome. I wrote about this program in previous posts. In my system, I use both, Panda Dome and MWAV. A good combination, in my opinion.

That's because these are ONLY offered when the videoID is an age-gated one && the tool is youtube-dl; with yt-dlp, as you wrote, the two audio variants, again for age-gated videoIDs, are labelled as "*" and "*-drc* (where drc = Dynamic Range Compression). TL;DR: When you're using youtube-dl and you stumble upon an age-gated videoID, if your script (for audio) specifically requests just "-f 140", then NO download for that ; you'd have to modify the audio format selection to be based on RegExp (and/or, perhaps, file extension of audio file) ...

On Windows Vista, CUDA must be disabled in the GPU driver's control panel to run Vegas Pro 15. If not, it gets hung up on a version check. I will look into it.

You always pay with your data. Therefore, these commercial antivirus scanner are not really free. But if you don't want that, you should avoid using Microsoft Windows, especially more recent ones. In these OSs, you always pay with your data, even if you have paid for your Windows. You can switch to Linux or take all kinds of countermeasures. BTW, MWAV - eScan Antivirus Toolkit is free of charge and an offline scanner which doesn't need any internet connections. Updating can be done offline, too. All has been described in this post and the subsequent:

Dug up my ancient Vista VirtualBox VM. It runs the same config that I ran when I had Vista on one of my laptops (that laptop died and I opted to not bring it back to life due to it only having Vista [was never really a fan of Vista]). My VM has two Task Scheduler processes that I kill on startup (this also disables "auto defrag" [I hate hate hate auto defrag!]). My number of processes via Task Manager is 29. But two of those are VirtualBox processes. So my laptop would have been running 27. The lower you can get your process count, the better! (OT - my real-world XP only runs 14!)

Nice, glad to hear that it worked. Does it work with Tab Mix Plus?

And most importantly we already have a set of solid moderators.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20230311-3219d2d-uxp-6f99b9744-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20230311-3219d2d-uxp-6f99b9744-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20230311-3219d2d-uxp-6f99b9744-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.6a1.win32-git-20230311-d849524bd-uxp-6f99b9744-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.6a1.win32-git-20230311-d849524bd-uxp-6f99b9744-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.6a1.win32-git-20230311-d849524bd-uxp-6f99b9744-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.6a1.win64-git-20230311-d849524bd-uxp-6f99b9744-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - Issue #1693 - Use scoped enums for IDBTransaction. (c920f32df) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1430303: Implement ShadowRoot.pointerLockElement (3dfffeaec) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1430305: Implement ShadowRoot.fullscreenElement (e286eb8ad) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1413102: Ensure Shadow DOM boundaries are dealt properly in event handling (24572438a) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1413102 (Follow-up): Ignore current target because of shadow DOM retargeting (1bb2009f6) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1323815: FocusEvent.relatedTarget should work consistently with MouseEvent.relatedTarget (1185cfe3f) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1438129: Remove ShadowRoot.applyAuthorStyles. (3350af82c) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1430301: Implement ShadowRoot.elementFromPoint/elementsFromPoint (e64aeea52) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1356496: Don't use nsIDOM* in ConfirmSelectionInBody (b2c77e5ed) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1066965: Make contentEditable and spellchecking to work in Shadow DOM (010db07bf) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1453789: Remove Element.createShadowRoot (45c179d01) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1410578: Make <link rel="stylesheet"> work in shadow trees (588c2154a) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1455891/Part 1: Improve StyleChildrenIterator (263b719ef) - Issue #2135 - Implement sequential focus navigation for shadow DOM (56193120c) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1518795: Properly track responsive content in a connected ShadowRoot (7b395189a) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1329877: Optimize AncestorFilter usage in lazy frame construction (7924a2f60) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1414692: Adopt shadow roots when adopting a shadow host across documents (b72ddcf65) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1393806/Part 1: Change nsNodeUtils cloning/adopting stuff to use an ErrorResult for errors (e65a864a3) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1393806/Part 2: Modify AdoptNodeIntoOwnerDoc to use the non-XPCOM version of document.AdoptNode (3062964d2) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1393806/Part 3: Change dom::ReparentWrapper to take an ErrorResult (9f0fb9c16) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1425864: Ensure printing documents which have shadow DOM works (015148fcc) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1419803: Use GetComposedDoc instead of GetUncomposedDoc in ContentEventHandler (70d493586) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1433669/Part 1: Remove dead function (2f9186959) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1433669/Part 2: Flush the document instead of the shell in ContentEventHandler (4d778226e) - Issue #2135 - Follow-up: Fix crash for passing nullptr as an argument to the aNodesWithProperties parameter (c194fbf6a) - Issue #2135 - Follow-up: Fix typo (9cb33ab84) - Issue #2046 - correct debug assert for intl_FormatRelativeTime() (3fb11e542) - Issue #2135 - Follow-up: Fix potential crash if shadow root is null (ad929c5dd) - Issue #2136 - Part 1: Implement CSS inset property (21d468ee6) - Issue #2136 - Part 2: Regenerate devtools CSS database (ae26d8a04) - Issue #2143 - Implement CSS env() Environment Variables (2b903a20b) - Issue #2135 - Follow-up: Ensure document is not null in nsImageLoadingContent::BindToTree (cfef3fa48) - Issue #2148 - Root the RegExpShared in RegExpMacroAssembler. (1f0df8f42) Official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build: - [Pale-Moon] Set compatversion for hardcoded overrides to 102.0 (5a627b6ce) - [Pale-Moon] Issue #1915 - [SSUAO] Add override for Instagram (c8488397e) Official Basilisk changes picked since my last build: - Revert "[Basilisk] Fade out tab label on overflow instead of ellipsis" (15e3a38b5) My changes since my last build: - [Basilisk] ported PM version of tab caption fading to here (2a32b18f4) - [Basilisk] add tab caption fading to CtrlTab (f159e44b2) - [Pale-Moon] add tab caption fading to CtrlTab (5db2ae1aa) - Revert "revert last rev (7faa37b7) and revert rev b7e45308 and 9824659d instead." (1b1d672dc) - Revert "reverting rev 22dc363c and 233802c9 for now since I got a crash in destructor of RegExpShared." (6f99b9744) Update Notice: - You may delete file named icudt58l.dat inside program folder when updating from old releases. * Notice: From now on, UXP rev will point to `custom` branch of my UXP repo instead of MCP UXP repo, while "official UXP changes" shows only `tracking` branch changes.

I always appreciate your investigations. Maybe, my installer is more recent, or there are different versions. I download it from Germany, maybe they redirect to another server or file. A lot of different possibilities. I downloaded it by myself and by using the online installer. Same sizes! Anyway! Dito! Καληνυχτα!

Many thanks , however I never requested anything myself - it just so happens I don't have TC here to compare; BTW, I did not doubt/second guess you in the first place; it just appeared weird to me that a discrepancy exists between the file size you posted and the one I "measured" here in the recently downloaded, same file, copy ... With the provided WE screenshot of yours, I can only conclude the file must have been, somehow, "trimmed" by Panda themselves... Don't know what else to think ... The digital signature of the file I downloaded has been verified OK, so I guess I'm fine ... As you pointed out already, the matter discussed here is not related to on/off-line installers per se, but to a defective .NET 4.0 installation in affected member's setup... Regards, und gute Nacht ...

... Same filesize reported here for the stub-installer (filename PANDAFREEAV.exe, dual-signed on 20220312): Below, Windows Explorer's properties window for the offline setup (downloaded ca. 15min ago): Every Windows user is expected to have Windows Explorer available, the same is not true for Total Commander ... It's possible the file is compressed and TC just expands it somehow , or the file might have changed on Panda's servers since the date (20/02/2023 ?) you fetched it yourself ... Additionally, the third-party site (LO4D.com) posted above appears to agree with my report : Best regards

The DIRECT download link to the off-line installer is http://acs.pandasoftware.com/Panda/FREEAV/193309/FREEAV.exe This is indeed of file version 15.14.5.0, it's DUAL-SIGNED on 2022/12/18, but its filesize here comes at only 73.9 MiB (77.535.680 bytes) ... Edit: @Milkinis: Please, refrain from providing third-party download links; "lo4d.com" are not affiliated themselves with PANDA ; the link I posted above has been extracted from PANDA's official on-line (aka "stub") installer... FWIW: Forums rule 1.b:

if you are concerned about safety you should uninstall your china made AV - 360 Total Security this will also free up some RAM and reduce CPU usage.

there's is nothing safe in the computing world but it should be quite a bit safer than the unmodified browser. I don't know if @NotHereToPlayGames has other browser projects in the works....

yes

Thank you so much for this! And after I'm done installing run the .NET update pack correct? Thanks again!

Windows XP x64 1.5eraph_Windows_XP_x64_Post-SP2_UpdatePack_ENU_v2019-08-Final.7z 2.5er_IE8_Addon_2019-08_1_x64 3.WMP11 Addon Server 2003 x64 1.5eraph_Windows_XP_x64_Post-SP2_UpdatePack_ENU_v2019-08-Final.7z 2.5er_IE8_Addon_2019-08_1_x64 3.5eraph_Windows_2003_x64_Post-SP2_Addon_ENU_v2019-08 4. WMP11 Addon You can choose to use it or not. 5er_NT5.2_EoS_FlashAX_32.0.0.465_SIAddon Flash Player 5er_Win7CMDToolsForNT5x_Addon_v2012-01_3_x64 entries_IE8Tweaks ;localization via MUI packs For IE8 5er_IE8MUI-x64_Addon

Ok. No SSE2 problem. You said all that happened after a clean reinstall of XP SP3. My next assumption is an essential component is missing or damaged while installing. I would check the Microsoft .NET Framework installation first. BTW, what version is the Panda Dome installer of you used for installation? The version of my offline installer is 15.14.5.0 with a size of 92.041.632 Bytes. And you should get rid of all remnants of previous Panda installations before you start the next attempt.

Panda Dome installs fine in Windows XP Professional SP3. No problems here. My system is fully updated including all POSReady updates. These are the system requirements for installing Panda Dome: Does your CPU support the SSE2 instruction set? Running an installation program that then immediately closes again is something I know well from systems whose CPU does not support SSE2, although the program needs this feature.

I did a scan of my system partition by MWAV - eScan Antivirus Toolkit. Surprisingly, the tool found a strange file that other AV programs did not notice. In any case, it is always a wise decision to use different scan tools. The one perfect tool will never exist. But we have to be glad that there are still a few tools running under Windows XP at all.

IIUC, WiseVector StopX is/was a full-fledged Antivirus/Antimalware solution, with real-time (preventative) protection; OTOH, MWAV is a (portable) on-demand scanner, its purpose is: a) check whether your system is pristine/free of infection b) if infection has been found to have taken place prior to the scan, it offers solutions to get rid of it... Of course, since I haven't used either , the definitive answer will be coming from AstroSkipper ...

Is this good such as the wise vector?

Just wanted to add my voice to this. nicolaasjan, you are a saint for providing these XP-compatible compiles of ytdl and ytdlp. Thank you so very much! Edit: FYI, while reading https://github.com/dirkf/youtube-dl/commit/b0b53e892, I noticed3 Vangelis66's comment asking if anyone has "noticed that the audio-only formats now come in *-0 and *-1 variants." If you want to pass this along to him, the -0 formats are the video's original audio, and the -1 formats are the original audio processed by Youtube to add compression and limiting for volume leveling. Here for example are what the waveforms for videoID p7FCgw_GlWc look like in the 140-0 and 140-1 streams: 140-0: 140-1: As you can see, the second one is exactly the same soundtrack, but has lots of amplification of quiet parts and deamplification of the loudest parts to create a more level volume from start to finish. If you want to pass this information along to that github thread (and/or the youtube-dlp/dl developers), feel free. I only discovered this just this minute, so it's possibly they don't yet know.

Interesting ! So basically it's the ol' Intel ME, just on steriods. A way around it, maybe wrap some thick aluminum or better copper foil around the module, make a ground wire . Don't forget to isolate the board to prevent shortings.

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/is-avast-safe/46519/

it's not a true AV with background processes that you can't take away, it's in fact a portable scanner.

So there is no free antivirus anymore

I've pretty much always assumed that all anti-virus scanners do that, behind your back, without telling you, unless you're very good at reading the fine print.

I'm planning to build a last rig for XP (4th gen intel) but I 'm not sure it's worthwhile to go that route. I first need to try all of my software utilities (hundreds) with a lightweight W11 to see what they look like, that's a deal breaker to me coz I can't stand these icon's plain colorway I neither updated some programs to the last version for the same reason because they look awuful to my eyes

In general, Vista extended kernel works very well for me in version 20230306. However, I will share my solutions to run software that with the extended kernel does not work properly and some other things. Vegas Pro 18 (and older versions) - For some reason, Vegas Pro 18 as well as older versions such as 16 or 14 did not want to run properly when I used any of the extended kernel versions, latest or older redirected locally. The solution turned out to be a local redirect of the original kernel32.dll, but that's not the end of the story. You have to replace one of the kernel32 imports in the Vegas ErrorReport.dll file using CFF Explorer (I don't remember the exact name, but it is the only import with the beginning of the name K32). The second missing function TryAcquireSRWLockExclusive should be added to the exports using ExportTableTester and CFF Explorer in the original kernel32 redirected locally. MegaDownloader 1.8 - here it was enough to redirect locally kernel32.dll from the October version of the extended kernel. Zoom - to run it, just redirect gdiplus.dll locally from Windows 7. Chromium-based browsers - the March 6 version messed up the video in these browsers, the solution is to install the new March 9 version with the corrected userenv.dll and kernel32.dll file. I also tried to install Office 2013 according to one user's guide, none of the programs wanted to run, I have no idea what caused it, because I installed the good old Office 2010 anyway As for Discord, the unofficial Lightcord client works seamlessly. Be aware, however, that Discord can ban user accounts for using unofficial clients. Win32 mentioned that the failure of the official Discord client to work may be due to IE dependencies. But that would be illogical, since the same client works on Windows 7 with IE8 installed. .NET 4.8 was unfortunately problematic, version 4.6.2 is enough for 95% of the software, and it does not cause problems with application performance.

I used ClamWin in Windows ME for a long time. It is still installed there, as this partition was never deleted due to historical reasons. Unfortunately, the detection rate is not that good, and the program does not have its own background guard. For this, one must additionally use an external tool called Clam Sentinel which unfortunately consumes a lot of resources in these old OSs. But as far as I know, it is one of the last working AV programs for Win9x/ME. Under Windows XP, I would try to avoid it, unless it would be the last existing AV program for XP at all. The good is ClamWin is Opensource.

Hi @Ryder252, hello from Belgium and welcome to MSFN! I wish you to enjoy the forums! Have a nice day. hpwamr

@win32 released a revised version of the March 6 extended kernel, Chromium problem resolved

seems to be fine as well.

but it seems to be working here. https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commit/2a32b18f465a8d068d1b1866d027374b4706cd5a

It is possibly related to the bug where it cannot access audio devices. I have solved it along with the general audio issues, but now need to solve another issue with .NET applications.

Yep, I reverted the preference dom.webcomponents.enabled back to its default setting. Too much errors in my web console. An old, weak CPU also has advantages, though. The user notices immediately that something is getting out of hand.

But be warned that using this switch will prevent some Cloudflare security checks from functioning.

I think I found out the intruder. I have used this extension to temporarily disable all extensions https://browsernative.com/disable-chrome-extensions-apps/ then I tried different words on the upper google search bar in order to find one that would trigger the issue I have just discovered that when this extension is enabled it will pop the error window off https://browsernative.com/user-agent-chrome-extension/

Here are two screenshots of MWAV - eScan Antivirus Toolkit, one of the program's main window, the other of the updater, both taken from my installation: The installer file is about 300 MB in size. To install MWAV on the computer, I recommend extracting the installer manually to the target directory and calling the executable file mexe.com or MWAVL.exe there. Reason: If the installer is called directly, all files are extracted to the system's temporary folder. For me, this is not an option. The program is compatible with Windows XP/Vista/7/8 and 2008, comes from Germany and is currently available in version 22.0.52 (DB). Don't worry, the program's interface is in English if this is your system language! Getting a second opinion in case of doubt or checking the system quickly, offline, is a good idea in any case. I have therefore integrated it into my system. Kind regards, AstroSkipper

While researching for an antivirus program which still works under Windows XP, I came across an interesting offline virus scanner that is still fully XP-compatible. The program is called MWAV - eScan Antivirus Toolkit. It is free for private and home use. MWAV provides the ability to scan for any virus, spyware, adware or other dangerous software on your computer. MWAV requires no installation and can be run directly from your computer, on whatever media. It can also run when other antivirus software is installed on your computer. The database is continuously updated to detect new spyware and adware, and the scanning engine is constantly improved for faster and smarter detection. Their homepage is in German. Use a translator if German is not your native language. Here is the link: https://www.escanav.de/german/content/products/MWAV/escan_mwav.asp

So that's it ?!?! You and me and no one else ?!??!! Wow ! Sad reality is not many want him back, as it seems. More importantly, no one else said anything regarding his honour... Life places everyone where he needs to be, I guess. All these people who wrote extremely lengthy soapy posts to him, and now it's only you and me who remembers him and took time to write a couple of good words !

I meant at least 3000 Euro per month.

No , you don't wanna do it . Just imagine you would have to read terribly broken English and deal with plonkers of various kinds every day . Some could be very annoying, like little bedbugs or worse. It's a very hard job and should have a good salary ! Let's see. I'd maybe agree for 3 thousands Euro. With respect to all creators/supervisors/moderators of MSFN.

I felt very privileged to be asked to be a moderator here, after being a member for many years and having hopefully made a useful contribution to the forum in that time. I'm sorry, but joining a forum and immediately asking to be made a moderator is just not realistic.

You just joined and made only one post. We know absolutely nothing about you and we're going to trust you with moderator status?

You can't just get it, you have to earn it...