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I found an alternative way to update uBlock Origin Legacy when the user still decides to install over an existing installation: Backup all your settings using the "Back up to file" button on the page "Settings". Install the new version of uBlock Origin Legacy over the existing one. Reset your installation using the "Reset to default settings" button on the page "Settings". Restore all settings from your backup file. This method can only be used for updates with the same extension ID, i.e. from version 1.16.4.32 and higher or from version 1.16.4.31 and lower. The reason for this is the change of the extension ID in version 1.16.4.32 I have performed. But one thing is clear. A clean install is the best method that causes the fewest problems. Greetings, AstroSkipper

@Damnation Can there be a mixture between halmps and halmacpi Dietmar

... That's NOT accurate to say ; while both OSes are NT 6.0, per your linked documentation: Windows Vista SP2 x86 & x64 Official Extended Support was EoL'ed on Apr 11th, 2017 : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-vista It is indeed true that the WS 2008 SP2 targeting updates released some two years after Vista's official End of Extended Support can be installed manually on the OS and bestow SHA-2 support on it, but this practice isn't considered "official" by either the vendor (Microsoft) or the rest of the third party vendors (Norton in this case ) ... Kindest regards ...

NortonLifeLock has announced that they will stop supporting Norton Security v22.15.x products on Vista and other older OSs that do not support SHA-2 code signing as of 22-May-2024. See employee Gayathri_R's 01-Mar-2024 announcement End-of-Life announcement for Norton security software on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (SP0) for more information. Note that Win 7 SP0 is Win 7 without Service Pack 1. NortonLifeLock threatened to end support for Norton Security v22.15.x a few years ago and reversed their decision after customers complained but I think they intend to stick to the 22-May-2024 end-of-life date this time.

@Damnation nt!KiDispatchInterrupt+0x393: 804dcbe5 3b6d00 cmp ebp,dword ptr [ebp] 11: kd> p nt!KiDispatchInterrupt+0x396: 804dcbe8 740d je nt!KiDispatchInterrupt+0x3a5 (804dcbf7) 11: kd> p nt!KiDispatchInterrupt+0x3a5: 804dcbf7 83bb2801000000 cmp dword ptr [ebx+128h],0 11: kd> p nt!KiDispatchInterrupt+0x3ac: 804dcbfe 74d7 je nt!KiDispatchInterrupt+0x385 (804dcbd7) 11: kd> p Packet failed authentication. Please make sure the host and target encryption keys match exactly. Also make sure you don't have multiple target machines pointed at the same network port on your host. Bad packet sent from 192.168.2.102. Run nslookup 192.168.2.102 from a command prompt to get the machine name. Packet failed authentication. Please make sure the host and target encryption keys match exactly. Also make sure you don't have multiple target machines pointed at the same network port on your host. Bad packet sent from 192.168.2.102. Run nslookup 192.168.2.102 from a command prompt to get the machine name. Packet failed authentication. Please make sure the host and target encryption keys match exactly. Also make sure you don't have multiple target machines pointed at the same network port on your host. Bad packet sent from 192.168.2.102. Run nslookup 192.168.2.102 from a command prompt to get the machine name. nt!KiDispatchInterrupt+0x38d: 804dcbdf f390 pause 10: kd> p

@Damnation This is Bsod surrounding without any breakpoint, Windbg continous with "p", F10, Dietmar https://ufile.io/b5j6aq0z

@Damnation I have your hal.pdb integrated. Now I get this, looks like kind of loop, or if something cant be found Dietmar https://ufile.io/310s052p

@Damnation Yes, I fixed everything that is possible on the HP 255 g6 board. Now, there is ACPI-Multprocessor with mostly all drivers. A lot of other notebooks boot with the same idea XP SP3 now, which show before Bsod, not direct related to acpi.sys. All those Bsods happen because of their VGA settings in DSDT and their internal VGA cant be disabled via Bios. Now I am just setting up a new XP SP3 on my Asrock z370 k6 board. Without any extra driver, just naked and ready for debug. This is possible, because it can use PS/2 for mouse and keyboard. Then I add your acpi.sys, hal.dll and ntoskrn8.sys. Soon I report Dietmar

Well, since the other member above kindly warned us - Avast might also be compromised by foreign intelligence agencies, I shan't use it anyways! I tend to listen to what the older folks have to say.

Panda Free (or not Free) and Malwarebytes Premium can both be installed, since they don't need a lot of RAM, so no problem with that.

Yes, it's working now! Many thanks to you, my honorable user, you are awesome!

I thought that I ought to push things along with this project with this post. The objective is to update Dibya's last patched binaries so that they are based on the last POSReady 2009 updates of these modules. It ought to be possible to patch other system files using the same techniques. The approach that Dibya has used is to patch the export table of these binaries so that API calls to NT6 functions are forwarded to an external dynamic link library that acts as a container for all the additional NT6 functions for the patched kernel32.dll, advapi32.dll, ole32.dll, shell32.dll and user32.dll. This external dynamic link library is called ExKernel.dll. I have provided a screen shot of the patched advapi32.dll opened in PE Maker here: Exkernel.dll is built by dissasembling Microsoft and Wine binaries to extract the subroutines for the additional NT6 functions to make the asm file ExKernel.asm which is then assembled with nasm.exe to produce the object file ExKernel.obj. ExKernel.obj is passed to golink.exe to link Exkernel to advapi32.dll, shell32.dll, kernel32.dll, and ntdll.dll. The ExKernel.asm file contains a table for imports as in the sample below: ; IMPORT TABLE EXTERN RtlEnterCriticalSection EXTERN RtlLeaveCriticalSection EXTERN WaitForSingleObject ;EXTERN _alloca_probe EXTERN RtlInitializeCriticalSection EXTERN SetEvent EXTERN RtlSetLastWin32Error EXTERN RtlTryEnterCriticalSection EXTERN GetLastError EXTERN GetProcessHeap EXTERN RtlAllocateHeap EXTERN ExitThread EXTERN CreateEventA EXTERN LoadLibraryA The table for exports is shown in the sample below: ; EXPORT TABLE GLOBAL AcquireSRWLockExclusive EXPORT AcquireSRWLockExclusive GLOBAL AcquireSRWLockShared EXPORT AcquireSRWLockShared GLOBAL InitializeSRWLock EXPORT InitializeSRWLock GLOBAL ReleaseSRWLockExclusive EXPORT ReleaseSRWLockExclusive GLOBAL ReleaseSRWLockShared EXPORT ReleaseSRWLockShared GLOBAL TryAcquireSRWLockExclusive EXPORT TryAcquireSRWLockExclusive GLOBAL TryAcquireSRWLockShared EXPORT TryAcquireSRWLockShared GLOBAL InterlockedCompareExchange64 EXPORT InterlockedCompareExchange64 Here is a sample of a subroutine in assembly included in ExKernel.asm FindNextStreamW: ;blackwingcat KB935839 2017.04 push ebp mov ebp,esp mov ecx,[ebp+08h] mov edx,[ecx+04h] add edx,[ecx+0Ch] mov eax,[ecx+08h] cmp eax,edx jnz L77EA5881 push 3221225489 ;C0000011h call SUB_L77E5826D xor eax,eax jmp L77EA58D4 L77EA5881: mov ecx,[eax+08h] mov edx,[ebp+0Ch] mov [edx],ecx mov ecx,[eax+0Ch] mov [edx+04h],ecx mov ecx,[eax+04h] push ebx push esi mov ebx,ecx push edi shr ecx,02h lea esi,[eax+18h] lea edi,[edx+08h] rep movsd mov ecx,ebx and ecx,00000003h rep movsb mov ecx,[eax+04h] shr ecx,1 and word [edx+ecx*2+08h],0000h mov eax,[eax] test eax,eax pop edi pop esi pop ebx jbe L77EA58C5 mov ecx,[ebp+08h] add [ecx+08h],eax jmp L77EA58D1 L77EA58C5: mov eax,[ebp+08h] mov ecx,[eax+04h] add ecx,[eax+0Ch] mov [eax+08h],ecx L77EA58D1: xor eax,eax inc eax L77EA58D4: pop ebp retn 0008h Here are some issues that I am unclear about and I would like Dibya or someone to clarify: Can someone supply instructions on how to use PE Maker to add additional entries to the export table? How do you know if there is sufficient space in the binary to be patched to accommodate these new entries in the export table without over-writing some of the existing code? Is there some way of creating extra space in the binary to to accommodate these new entries? What tool is recommended to extract functions as assembly from Microsoft and Wine binaries? Why criteria would you use to choose either Microsoft, Wine or BWC binaries as a source for these extracted functions? If you decide not to use an external dynamic link library as a container for the additional NT6 functions how would you insert them into the binary to be patched? Would you dissasemble the binary to be patched and paste the dissasembled NT6 functions into it's asm file then assemble it, or could you extract the NT6 functions as hex and paste them into a hex dump of the binary to be patched? ExKernel.asm

My previous post must have seemed naive to an expert like VistaLover, but I had anticipated that the CDM client would calculate a checksum of it's main dll to detect tampering, and if the checksum did not match the correct one in the client's code a signal would be sent to the widevine server to halt the download of the encrypted keys. Castlabs are now offering a free service for Widevine/VMP signing of application packages derived from official releases of Electron. They also offer a commercial VMP certification of custom Chromium/Electron adaptations which sounds like it is not free. Perhaps VistaLover could study this page Electron for Content Security VMP signing service and make some recommendations to the Supermium developer.

... I launched my Kafan MiniBrowser (KMB) copy (Chromium 87 based) on my Vista SP2 x86 OS with below command-line argument: --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" Then I navigated to: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en Guess what? Yes, the previous banner: no longer displayed, but ONLY to be replaced by a new banner, stating: WT... ?

No, that's not it. Seems that Win+X is removing itself with newer Windows Updates Wipe %localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\WinX

Thanks for the replies. I guess I have a slightly newer version. It seems to be working OK. I'm more up on Windows XP than Windows 7 ... so it's all good.

@VistaLover, somehow missed your post from 2/15/2024. if i did i would not have posted. ment no disrespect.

Update notification! As already reported , the Root Certificates have been updated and are now from 27-02-2024. Here are screenshots of both updaters: Therefore, my self-created, offline Root Certificate Updaters in the section 11.2.4. Downloads related to Root Certificate Updates (in the first post of this thread) will also be updated as soon as possible. Cheers, AstroSkipper

@Damnation Break instruction exception - code 80000003 (first chance) nt!KiDispatchInterrupt+0x38d: 804dcbdf f390 pause 1: kd> g Break instruction exception - code 80000003 (first chance) ******************************************************************************* * * * You are seeing this message because you pressed either * * CTRL+C (if you run console kernel debugger) or, * * CTRL+BREAK (if you run GUI kernel debugger), * * on your debugger machine's keyboard. * * * * THIS IS NOT A BUG OR A SYSTEM CRASH * * * * If you did not intend to break into the debugger, press the "g" key, then * * press the "Enter" key now. This message might immediately reappear. If it * * does, press "g" and "Enter" again. * * * ******************************************************************************* nt!DbgBreakPointWithStatus+0x4: 804e2a42 cc int 3 0: kd> g *** Fatal System Error: 0x0000007e (0xC0000005,0x00000000,0xF789E168,0xF789DE64) Break instruction exception - code 80000003 (first chance) A fatal system error has occurred. Debugger entered on first try; Bugcheck callbacks have not been invoked. A fatal system error has occurred. Connected to Windows XP 2600 x86 compatible target at (Thu Feb 29 19:05:36.031 2024 (UTC + 1:00)), ptr64 FALSE Loading Kernel Symbols .............................. Loading User Symbols ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information. BugCheck 7E, {c0000005, 0, f789e168, f789de64} Probably caused by : NDIS.sys ( NDIS!ndisMQueryNetworkAddress+23 ) Followup: MachineOwner --------- nt!RtlpBreakWithStatusInstruction: 804e2a42 cc int 3 11: kd> !analyze -v ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (7e) This is a very common bugcheck. Usually the exception address pinpoints the driver/function that caused the problem. Always note this address as well as the link date of the driver/image that contains this address. Arguments: Arg1: c0000005, The exception code that was not handled Arg2: 00000000, The address that the exception occurred at Arg3: f789e168, Exception Record Address Arg4: f789de64, Context Record Address Debugging Details: ------------------ EXCEPTION_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - Die Anweisung "0x%08lx" verweist auf Speicher bei "0x%08lx". Die Daten wurden wegen eines E/A-Fehlers in "0x%081x" nicht in den Arbeitsspeicher bertragen. FAULTING_IP: +1f451c801f451e8 00000000 ?? ??? EXCEPTION_RECORD: f789e168 -- (.exr 0xfffffffff789e168) ExceptionAddress: 00000000 ExceptionCode: c0000005 (Access violation) ExceptionFlags: 00000000 NumberParameters: 2 Parameter[0]: 00000000 Parameter[1]: 00000000 Attempt to read from address 00000000 CONTEXT: f789de64 -- (.cxr 0xfffffffff789de64;r) eax=00000000 ebx=80702790 ecx=54445358 edx=00000001 esi=f7472b20 edi=807026c0 eip=00000000 esp=f789e230 ebp=f789e250 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc cs=0008 ss=0010 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000 efl=00010246 00000000 ?? ??? Last set context: eax=00000000 ebx=80702790 ecx=54445358 edx=00000001 esi=f7472b20 edi=807026c0 eip=00000000 esp=f789e230 ebp=f789e250 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc cs=0008 ss=0010 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000 efl=00010246 00000000 ?? ??? Resetting default scope DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT PROCESS_NAME: System ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - Die Anweisung "0x%08lx" verweist auf Speicher bei "0x%08lx". Die Daten wurden wegen eines E/A-Fehlers in "0x%081x" nicht in den Arbeitsspeicher bertragen. EXCEPTION_PARAMETER1: 00000000 EXCEPTION_PARAMETER2: 00000000 READ_ADDRESS: 00000000 FOLLOWUP_IP: NDIS!ndisMQueryNetworkAddress+23 bac63a56 e6ff out 0FFh,al FAILED_INSTRUCTION_ADDRESS: +23 00000000 ?? ??? BUGCHECK_STR: 0x7E ANALYSIS_VERSION: 6.3.9600.17237 (debuggers(dbg).140716-0327) x86fre LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 00000000 to 00000000 SYMBOL_ON_RAW_STACK: 1 STACK_ADDR_RAW_STACK_SYMBOL: fffffffff789d9e0 STACK_COMMAND: dps fffffffff789d9e0-0x20 ; kb STACK_TEXT: f789d9c0 6c674a6f f789d9c4 6e666e67 f789d9c8 ee776a67 f789d9cc 6a676a67 f789d9d0 7e647a66 f789d9d4 7b667866 f789d9d8 38063a0e f789d9dc bac63a56 NDIS!ndisMQueryNetworkAddress+0x23 f789d9e0 3a063a06 f789d9e4 3a063206 f789d9e8 91ea67db f789d9ec c37cf2f2 f789d9f0 f1ea779b f789d9f4 e3ff5070 f789d9f8 b1eb67d3 f789d9fc e3fed2f2 f789da00 00008070 f789da04 00000000 f789da08 8071e0fe hal!HalpGetFeatureBits+0x52 [e:\xpsp1\nt\base\hals\halmps\i386\mphal.c @ 1097] f789da0c 00000001 f789da10 f78feb3c f789da14 f78feb38 f789da18 f78feb38 f789da1c 00008070 f789da20 00000000 f789da24 00000000 f789da28 756e6547 f789da2c 49656e69 f789da30 6c65746e f789da34 00d1e300 f789da38 00000000 f789da3c 00000000 SYMBOL_NAME: NDIS!ndisMQueryNetworkAddress+23 FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner MODULE_NAME: NDIS IMAGE_NAME: NDIS.sys DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 48025d03 IMAGE_VERSION: 5.1.2600.5512 FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x7E_NULL_IP_NDIS!ndisMQueryNetworkAddress+23 BUCKET_ID: 0x7E_NULL_IP_NDIS!ndisMQueryNetworkAddress+23 ANALYSIS_SOURCE: KM FAILURE_ID_HASH_STRING: km:0x7e_null_ip_ndis!ndismquerynetworkaddress+23 FAILURE_ID_HASH: {6cac7e57-f19c-4081-7e29-9f6a6f30cf6b} Followup: MachineOwner ---------

@Damnation Next try gives this Dietmar https://ufile.io/tw0rd9vu

This is a quotation from gorhill's wiki page about the legacy extension of uBlock Origin: Source: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/tree/master/dist#install Drag and drop the previously downloaded ublock0.firefox-legacy.xpi into Firefox (Pale Moon, New Moon and so on) is the recommended method there for installing an uBO xpi file. Same here by JustOff: Source: https://github.com/JustOff/ublock0-updater/issues/112 This type of update, by simply installing over an existing installation, may have worked in the past, but unfortunately, as shown in my above-quoted proof, it hasn't worked for a long time when it comes to the default filter lists. uBO's settings, self-created rules and self-added, custom filters remain intact as far as I noticed. But why did the users never realise this update issue in the past? The answer is quite simple. After installing or updating uBlock Origin, it automatically performs a download and installation of the internal list of all default filter lists (assets.json) quite promptly. So, a user always got the most recent version of this file from uBO's update server. Unfortunately, this file hasn't been updated for a long time and has become more and more obsolete. In my mod uBlock Origin Legacy, I therefore have removed the auto update of this file and started to maintain it by myself. That's why now a user immediately notice the issue that the new filter lists of my mod are not shown when installing an update of uBlock Origin Legacy over an existing installation and why a clean install is mandatory (and already was in the past). One thing I should still mention. When I make a recommendation that something should be done one way or another, I never do so without a specific reason. Cheers, AstroSkipper

@Damnation A first run shows only the same error as you have, that someone tries to write in forbidden memory Dietmar *** Fatal System Error: 0x0000007e (0xC0000005,0x00000000,0xF789E168,0xF789DE64) Break instruction exception - code 80000003 (first chance) A fatal system error has occurred. Debugger entered on first try; Bugcheck callbacks have not been invoked. A fatal system error has occurred. Connected to Windows XP 2600 x86 compatible target at (Wed Feb 28 18:25:27.820 2024 (UTC + 1:00)), ptr64 FALSE Loading Kernel Symbols .............................. Loading User Symbols ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information. BugCheck 7E, {c0000005, 0, f789e168, f789de64} Probably caused by : Unknown_Image ( ANALYSIS_INCONCLUSIVE ) Followup: MachineOwner --------- nt!RtlpBreakWithStatusInstruction: 804e2a42 cc int 3 11: kd> !analyze -v ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (7e) This is a very common bugcheck. Usually the exception address pinpoints the driver/function that caused the problem. Always note this address as well as the link date of the driver/image that contains this address. Arguments: Arg1: c0000005, The exception code that was not handled Arg2: 00000000, The address that the exception occurred at Arg3: f789e168, Exception Record Address Arg4: f789de64, Context Record Address Debugging Details: ------------------ EXCEPTION_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - Die Anweisung "0x%08lx" verweist auf Speicher bei "0x%08lx". Die Daten wurden wegen eines E/A-Fehlers in "0x%081x" nicht in den Arbeitsspeicher bertragen. FAULTING_IP: +150b5800150b78 00000000 ?? ??? EXCEPTION_RECORD: f789e168 -- (.exr 0xfffffffff789e168) ExceptionAddress: 00000000 ExceptionCode: c0000005 (Access violation) ExceptionFlags: 00000000 NumberParameters: 2 Parameter[0]: 00000000 Parameter[1]: 00000000 Attempt to read from address 00000000 CONTEXT: f789de64 -- (.cxr 0xfffffffff789de64;r) eax=00000000 ebx=80702790 ecx=54445358 edx=00000001 esi=f7472b20 edi=807026c0 eip=00000000 esp=f789e230 ebp=f789e250 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc cs=0008 ss=0010 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000 efl=00010246 00000000 ?? ??? Last set context: eax=00000000 ebx=80702790 ecx=54445358 edx=00000001 esi=f7472b20 edi=807026c0 eip=00000000 esp=f789e230 ebp=f789e250 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc cs=0008 ss=0010 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000 efl=00010246 00000000 ?? ??? Resetting default scope DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT PROCESS_NAME: System ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - Die Anweisung "0x%08lx" verweist auf Speicher bei "0x%08lx". Die Daten wurden wegen eines E/A-Fehlers in "0x%081x" nicht in den Arbeitsspeicher bertragen. EXCEPTION_PARAMETER1: 00000000 EXCEPTION_PARAMETER2: 00000000 READ_ADDRESS: 00000000 FOLLOWUP_IP: +150b5800150b78 00000000 ?? ??? FAILED_INSTRUCTION_ADDRESS: +150b5800150b78 00000000 ?? ??? BUGCHECK_STR: 0x7E ANALYSIS_VERSION: 6.3.9600.17237 (debuggers(dbg).140716-0327) x86fre LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 00000000 to 00000000 STACK_TEXT: f789e22c 00000000 00000000 00000000 f74774fc 0x0 STACK_COMMAND: kb SYMBOL_NAME: ANALYSIS_INCONCLUSIVE FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner MODULE_NAME: Unknown_Module IMAGE_NAME: Unknown_Image DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 0 IMAGE_VERSION: FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x7E_NULL_IP_ANALYSIS_INCONCLUSIVE BUCKET_ID: 0x7E_NULL_IP_ANALYSIS_INCONCLUSIVE ANALYSIS_SOURCE: KM FAILURE_ID_HASH_STRING: km:0x7e_null_ip_analysis_inconclusive FAILURE_ID_HASH: {dfedf0b5-2624-ece8-95fa-645295e3260a} Followup: MachineOwner ---------

It works with Vista x64, x86, I checked myself. Though, it can't boot from it. I have a classic BIOS from 2009 (without films and games in it).

Here's a fully working ASM1061 PCI-E Cards to SATA 3.0 with two internal ports, works with Vista without any additional drivers. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355467151767 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126046738088 Manufacturer claims full support. https://www.asmedia.com.tw/product/77BYq58SX3HyepH7/58dYQ8bxZ4UR9wG5

For me, ESET never was, not only it marked legit copy protection game files as "viruses", it also deleted important files on my XP pc and put them to "quarantine" forever, I was not surprised to see it still does! To be fair, I gave it a chance in the past. I remember, I even lost my online registration for the DVD check of Sacred 2 (based on securom). As for your OT question, I fail to understand, why would you be interested, if you discarded ESET anyway? I could only guess, but If you want to be recruited or renew some previous pre-1991 arrangements, I'm sure there's no need to go to Bratislava, and I'm definitely not the one to talk to! NOD32 "Such file could contain valuable information, and losing it is certainly not what you’d wish for" https://hetmanrecovery.com/recovery_news/how-to-return-files-if-eset-nod-deleted-or-placed-them-in-quarantine.htm

Of course, Avast Premier's self-protection was deactivated before I started the uninstall routine. Everyone who wants to completely remove an AV programme that has such a self-protection function should know this. But that did not help at all. It was the same with Eset NOD32 Antivirus in the past. The uninstall routine of Avast 18.8 was inadequately programmed and therefore rubbish. And AvastClear 18.8 is not much better. The way I described in the article "Why I switched from Avast! to WiseVector StopX" I quoted above, on the other hand, worked excellently, but is not readily accessible and recommended for an inexperienced user. PS: The reader should not be confused by the title of my article. In the meanwhile, WiseVector StopX has been abandoned by the manufacturer and is therefore history.

AvastClear does not need any installation. It is portable. So there is no need of uninstallation, either. But in my case, it didn't work, unfortunately. AvastClear is more of a joke. A company provides a special tool for uninstalling their products, but it fails, either. Very poor!

No, Vistapocalypse warned us about the dangers coming from the KGB(FSB) or whatever they call Russian spies these days, and I'm grateful for that warning! It makes me wonder, why do you even assume, a fellow American, such as him, would be afraid of the NSA, right @Vistapocalypse, you aren't afraid of the NSA or their alleged "backdoor" in Avast or anywhere else?

WOW! A portable AV! That's definitely something unique. The last time I used a portable AV, it was ClamWin. Panda Dome looks more and more tempting, I will probably make a small gift to my mommy and purchase her a paid version of Panda Dome for WinXP laptop!

Thank you for providing this link! I will have a look at this.

it's made in china just like the last working and stable web browsers for XP. google, intel, nvidia, M$... and many others who don't support XP anymore are not chinese companies AFAIK Read this quotation from my introductory post containing the conditions for posting here in this thread: No more off-topic posts in my thread! This is my last warning. AstroSkipper

I'm from The Netherlands, I don't know anyone, never saw anyone who uses Kaspersky. And I have quite a lot of friends due to my work. As usual, thank you very much for bringing this to our attention!

Hello, jasonjulius1122! Welcome to MSFN! MSFN is rather exclusive, it's the place for the strong! If you're strong, you'll enjoy it.

AstroSkipper, greetings! It's so great to see you're still here and provide us with top-notch software only! I'm actually amazed and intrigued at the same time! They still have such a nice all-in-one security European software package for XP, and I didn't know about it! What would I do without you! I'll intsall it on my mother's laptop as soon as I visit her. The name Panda was confusing though)))) I thought it was Chinese, now I see it's European, and I'll not hesitate to use it!

Malwarebytes Premium is more than a virus scanner. Here is a link to read what kind of features are offered in Malwarebytes: Have a lot of fun while reading!

The Giant Matrix home page disappeared in 2015. Their last version seems to be 9.0.1 from 2013. I assume that Anti Tracks' VPN feature doesn't work anymore in these days. For me, no problem, I use paid VPN services. In any case, I will check this programme more deeply when I have more time. First, I will add it to my internal list.

Already happened in November of 2022, Google had pulled the plug. https://msfn.org/board/topic/184046-future-of-chrome-on-windows-7

Well, 2021 games don't work, like I wrote just now. RDR2 is 2019. I'm pretty sure you got the wrong impression, It would be easier if they worked on win 7 ! I don't even have win 8/10 and not going to. The "fact" is debatable, to say the least. We shall see how folks will try to survive without chrome, audacity, MKVtoolnix, etc. My 26 y.o. girlfriend says Windows 7 is a system for pensioners, lol. I wonder what the next younger one would say !

Why would I read an article from early 2017 for such obsolete hardware ? We shall have 2023 in a couple of weeks. I don't know people who would voluntarily purchase a 6 years old laptop just to be able (possibly, without any hard proof) use Win 7. From what I know, that trick worked only for some early Kaby-lake models.

and yeah. people started having problem with MCP's custom NSS code. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=22421 and Mark admitted the problem. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=170029#p170029 but whatever, I'd stick to mozilla's NSS as usual.

there is an override in about:config, you may change "general.useragent.override.web.whatsapp.com" to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2049.0 Safari/537.36"

go to first post in this thread in page 1, there are links to latest build of each browser.

New regular/weekly KM-Goanna release: https://o.rths.cf/kmeleon/KM76.2-Goanna-20190629.7z Changelog: Out-of-tree changes: * update Goanna3 to git 2a3b5ec9e..253db3c3f: - nss: update to 3.44.1, with vc2013 fix and gyp fix (0982e5a8d) - import change from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1087646 - Properly serialize nullprincipal URIs across IPC. (1fcc5a63e) - bug 1137538 - remove nsIIdentityInfo and nsNSSSocketInfo::GetPreviousCert Bug 1136471 - Remove unused nsIIdentityInfo.getValidEVPolicyOid(). (f23ed7a6f) - Bug 1049476 - 0001. webidl change - Support user certificate parameter (ba92ac3c6) - Bug 1049476 - 0002. Support user certificate parameter in API. (30ec1a9c8) - Bug 1049476 - 0003. Add EAP-TLS to wifi capabilities. (69920f968) - Bug 1130400. Part 1. Pass the passed in anchor frame to SetPopupPosition in nsMenuPopupFrame::LayoutPopup if we have one. r=enndeakin (2de244c51) - Bug 1130400. Part 2. Use a reflow callback to set the position of xul popups. r=enndeakin (aa2117085) - Bug 1130400. Add test. (9047c9013) - Bug 1043143: Step 2a: Add a class like nsDownloader but using memory instead of a file. (fad673f10) - Bug 1034143: Step 2b: Add the ability to read jar files from arbitrary memory. (e1dc9faa6) - Bug 1034143: Step 1: Fix tests for bug 945152 and bug 1008126. r=smaug (e6b6cc408) - Bug 1043143: Step 3: Convert nsJARChannel from temporary files to temporary memory. r=honzab (79e381e50) - Bug 1145631 - Part 1: Replace MOZ_OVERRIDE and MOZ_FINAL with override and final in the tree; r=froydnj (f21f630cb) - Bug 1148527 - Indentation fix after bug 1145631 (a8153b9c5) (b372a2634) - import change from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - cleanup whitespace (402d7b83b) - Bug 1140658 - Part 7: Close underlying file stream in ReadStream before reporting closed; (2bce37716) - Bug 1143223 - Teach Cache ReadStream not to AddRef() itself in its destructor. (b262891bd) - Bug 1140658 - Part 1: Create a mini-framework for running tests in the worker, service worker and window contexts (ff56f6f4e) - Bug 1140658 - Part 2: Merge test_cache.js and test_cache_frame.html (b6eabb6fd) - Bug 1140658 - Part 5: Remove test_cache_quick_close.html because it makes no sense after bug 1131353 (19d0a7f24) - Bug 1142333 - Add a test for passing Request objects to DOM cache match methods (506346266) - Bug 1142790 - Add a test for passing Request objects to DOM cache matchAll method; (7629a098e) - Bug 1142269 - Auto-vacuum the DOM Cache database; r=bkelly (7918837f0) - Bug 1143959 - Set the journal mode and foreign key pragmas for all DBActions; r=bkelly (72203a916) - Bug 1143894 - Part 1: Clear the ErrorResult message if InternalHeaders::Get fails; r=bkelly (fd5afc218) - Bug 1143894 - Part 2: Support Vary headers including multiple header names in DOM Cache; r=bkelly (cb3d7129d) - Bug 1143894 - Part 3: Do not propagate errors in getting the headers to the outside world; r=bkelly (de058497a) - Bug 1143894 - Part 4: Add tests for handling of the Vary header in DOM Cache (bd174ede9) - Bug 1143894 - Part 5: Add a test for handling of the Vary header with multiple entries in the cache; r=bkelly (780cf31ce) - Bug 1142790 - Add a test for passing Request objects to DOM cache matchAll method; (318bacb44) - Bug 1140658 - Part 4: Port test_cache_add.html to the new mini-framework; (fbd80b0f6) - Bug 1142772 - Interleave the DOM Cache tests run through the mini-framework; r=bkelly (37c61b81f) - Bug 1143193 - Run the tests for match and matchAll on both Request objects and string URLs; (cb6a122f9) - Bug 1143219 - Add tests for passing an unknown request to match and matchAll; (6eed5fb13) - Bug 1143511 - Correct the usages of .catch() in DOM cache tests; r=bkelly (aa7fbd0f7) - Bug 1143813 - Add tests for attempting to store a non-GET request in the DOM Cache (573164971) - Bug 1143820 - Add tests to ensure that the URL fragments are correctly ignored by the DOM Cache API; (81c4bea52) - Bug 1143833 - Add tests for the ignoreSearch match mode in DOM cache; (013de8632) - Bug 1143222 - Avoid dumping out extremely long response bodies to the mochitest log, and re-enable the newly added DOM cache tests to run both in seqential and parallel modes; r=bkelly (be68c42b0) - Bug 1144337 - Add tests to ensure that cacheName is only honored on CacheStorage, and not Cache (fa38be4f8) - Bug 1145445 - Add a test for CacheStorage; (3512d19fc) - Bug 1145792 - Add a test for the Cache.keys method; (ceae47df5) - Bug 1110814 P1 Implement Cache IPC actor for streaming data from child to parent. (a72a00cd2) - Bug 1110814 P0 Fully initialize Response before resolve Fetch promise. (443df9f44) - Bug 1110814 follow-up: Fix a typo in order to fix the test failures (c89dce5f6) - Bug 1110814 followup: Add missing 'override' annotations to new methods in CacheParent. (3b01c389d) (a0e1e5739) - import change from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1110487 P2 Implement the nsIOfflineStorage interface in Cache. (e61a6d548) - Bug 1110487 P3 Cache should ensure Actions are finished before completing. (0278071c5) - Bug 1110487 P4 Allow Cache Action objects to be canceled more than once. (8734ce14e) - Bug 1149987 - Part 1: Make it possible to send an ErrorResult that doesn't encode a JS exception through the IPDL layer (f8c8abf60) - Bug 1149987 - Part 7: Send the full ErrorResult in the AddAllResponse IPC message; r=bkelly (0201b05e7) - Bug 1145321 - Disconnect the CacheStorage object from its actor when it gets cycle collected; (78aac7cb5) (7f40159c3) - import change from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1146557 P1 Fix CacheStorage and Cache to QI to nsISupports correctly. r=ehsan (b56ba80cd) - Bug 1146557 P2 Flip dom.caches.enabled to true on non-release builds. (b1ac38779) - Bug 1126014 - DomainPolicy support for e10s. r=mrbkap (484fa7f8d) - Bug 1092102 - Implement worker debugger runnables; (cfb3cb53d) - Bug 1092102 - Implement WorkerDebugger.initialize; (24f467b14) - Bug 1092102 - Implement WorkerDebugger.postMessage; (ad69a161d) - Bug 1092102 - Implement WorkerDebuggerGlobalScope.reportError; (f937913f2) - Bug 1092102 - Implement WorkerDebuggerGlobalScope.enterEventLoop; (d1d0ad392) - Bug 1092102 - Implement WorkerDebuggerGlobalScope.setImmediate (a22de0f0d) - Bug 1092102 - Implement WorkerDebuggerGlobalScope.createSandbox (d281de130) - Bug 1092102 followup: Add missing 'override' annotation on DebuggerImmediateRunnable::IsDebuggerRunnable(). (b4d053cfe) - Bug 1092102, followup 2: Add missing 'override' annotation to WorkerDebuggerSandboxPrivate::GetGlobalJSObject() (and 'virtual', for consistency). (72c9f3c84) - Bug 1092102 - Rename Suspend/Resume to Freeze/Thaw; (a7f2b5c11) - Bug 1092102 - Implement WorkerDebugger.isFrozen; (805ba0e9e) (253db3c3f) * Notice: the changelog above may not always applicable to XULRunner code which K-Meleon uses. A goanna3 source tree that has kmeleon adaption patch applied is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/palemoon27/tree/kmeleon76

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rths.cf/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.3.win32-git-20190629-e4b2fa17b-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.cf/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.3.win64-git-20190629-e4b2fa17b-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-28.6.0a1.win32-git-20190629-e4b2fa17b-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-28.6.0a1.win64-git-20190629-e4b2fa17b-xpmod.7z Official repo changes since my last build: - Convert CopyBoxedOrUnboxedDenseElements to calls to initDenseElement (7ba3b1448) - Clean up and rename MoveBoxedOrUnboxedDenseElements. (e913687dc) - Replace SetOrExtendBoxedOrUnboxedDenseElements with direct calls. (7d93d4989) - Remove and clean up more code. (9cfa398a1) - Update comment (ed98fe0e7) - Remove JSOP_SPREADCALLARRAY and just use JSOP_NEWARRAY again. (912c3f5cb) - Remove/inline CanonicalizeArrayLengthValue. (f2c8fc62a) - Fix typo in ArrayShiftMoveElements (6a8df0738) - Fix a typo in ArraySliceOrdinary (62311832e) - Revert "Remove JSOP_SPREADCALLARRAY and just use JSOP_NEWARRAY again." (9a2224a97) - Merge branch 'master' into remove-unboxed (a42bed2e9) - Merge branch 'master' into remove-unboxed (5f45e2222) - Remove Unboxed Object code from jit, Part 2. (6cebf2549) - Fix unified deprot (fd96dac1d) - Remove Unboxed Object code from jit, Part 3. (ac97104c5) - Remove Unboxed Object code from jit, Part 4. (e2ab8d5f3) - Remove Unboxed Object code from /vm, Part 3. (c5b0e1f5e) - Remove Unboxed Objects Option Code (1cf7e63d9) - Remove unboxed object tests. (083d840f3) - Remove UnboxedObjects ObjectGroup addendum (636901a4f) - Remove now-unused parameter (prev. used for unboxed objects). (3264f3b73) - Clean up MObjectState (06bf5d769) - Remove anyNewScript() (e4ae95acc) - Update NSS to 3.41.1 (custom) (fbc2eaacd) - Revert "Update NSS to 3.41.1 (custom)" (4b188510a) - Update NSS to 3.41.1 (custom) (3c568a568) - Update HSTS preload list (fc4dc10d0) - Platform version update for large internal changes: (7715dd79c) - Merge branch 'nss-sftkpwd-update' (95ab8db84) - Merge pull request #1143 from trav90/master (06e4213b0) - Update CLOBBER (68728c51c) - Installer: Stop trying to read stub installer data from ini file (610c5fc6c) - Add StoreBuffer-inl.h header to jsobj.cpp (b8ff1df2c) - Merge pull request #1142 from MoonchildProductions/remove-unboxed (31a02a022) - Update branding. (13b2b9edf) - Re-save wordmark SVG as plain SVG. (b9acf529e) - Revert "Treat *.jnlp as an executable class file, like *.jar" (32e6b0f47) - [Pale Moon] Remove *.pdf file association in the installer. (e4b2fa17b) My changes since my last build: - backout MCP's NSS-3.41.1-custom in favor of stock newer NSS - nss: update to 3.44.1, with vc2013 fix and gyp fix (d4b834111) - import changes from win7-7/UXP: bug1347737, bug1365982, bug1367206 (0f035317a) - ported mozilla upstream change: Bug 1355441 - Reuse StackNode in TreeBuilder to avoid malloc. r=hsivonen. (b7a35ab2c)

WARNING: MCP people decided to write custom codes in NSS in order to solve https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP/issues/82, while I want to stick with mozilla's upstream NSS, so MCP NSS will not be in my builds and switching profiles from official 28.6.0(not released yet, can't confirm official unstable version right now) build to my build may cause stored passwords being lost.

New build of post-deprecated Serpent/moebius for XP! * Notice: This repo will not be built on regular schedule, and changes are experimental as usual. ** Current moebius patch level should be on par with 52.9, but some security patches can not be applied/ported due to source milestone differences between versions. Test binary: Win32 http://o.rths.cf/basilisk/basilisk55-win32-git-20190622-c2dfff698-xpmod.7z Win64 http://o.rths.cf/basilisk/basilisk55-win64-git-20190622-c2dfff698-xpmod.7z repo: https://github.com/roytam1/basilisk55 Repo changes: - ported mozilla upstream change: Bug 1544386 part 1 - Call ElementAccessHasExtraIndexedProperty instead of ArrayPrototypeHasIndexedProperty when inlining array natives. r=tcampbell a=lizzard (MFSA2019-18) (baebe9c1a) - ported upstream mozilla esr60 changes: bug1515052, bug1539219, bug1547757, bug1555523 (945e3a9c8) - update ICU to icu4c-58.3, tzdata to 2019a, and marked for clobbering. (c2dfff698)

New build of Firefox 45ESR SSE: test binary: https://o.rths.cf/gpc/files1.rt/firefox-45.9.16-20190622-73d5c57b4-win32-sse.7z repo: https://github.com/roytam1/mozilla45esr Changes since my last build: - bump version to 45.9.16 (049d700ef) - import changes from tenfourfox: - closes #557: M1502799 (M1526218, M1528909, M1540221, partial M1484980 with future expansion (695f6a162) - closes #555: shavar cryptominer auto import into adblock (also remove old 52 import script) (78e9f2e0e) - #559: update certs, pins, TLDs, miners (1bc40339f) - #561: M1544386 (apply to FPR14 for SPR1) (44e037bfb) - #562: ICU 56.2 sync to upstream (1fd25c510) - #561: cleanup (b19941fdf) (73d5c57b4)