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Regarding McAfee I never used it and TBH, I never liked it. I tested it under Windows XP many, many years ago, only for a very short time. I was glad to get rid of it completely after testing. However, I am quite surprised that your installation is supposed to get definition updates as McAfee abandoned support for Windows XP long time ago. Are you sure that your Enterprise version (8.8 from 2013? ) still gets updates? Personally, I don't believe it. That would be very unusual.

Do you have any actual proof that McAfee works with NSA, or (maybe) it changes Windows system files like Kaspersky does?

Hi Dave ; I think a distinction should be made, so that other readers aren't being confused ... The "wrapper" library component of Supermium (which the Thorium author has also got permission to bundle with his browser, to make it XP+Vista compatible) comes originally from win32ss (win32 here at MSFN), it consists of only one DLL (named progwrp.dll) and the file version is currently in the 1.1.0.xxxx range... As you wrote already, the installer for Sm-v124-pre comes with v1.1.0.5016; that one apparently causes issues for some non-standard XP SP3 x86 installations, hence GitHub #686 was filed; inside that thread, win32ss has uploaded, as of this writing, six (6) iterations of progwrp.dll-v1.1.0.5017 and one (first) iteration of progwrp.dll-v1.1.0.5018 here which, technically, is the latest official offering ... OTOH, versions 1.2.0.xxxx belong to the alternate, let's call it "unofficial", "wrapper" library implementation by @IDA-RE-things ; at this time, this implementation consists of up to 3 separate DLLs and is mainly targeting Low-End (as in H/W) XP SP3 x86 older setups (slow HDDs, limited RAM, slow by today's standards CPU, etc.): https://github.com/IDA-RE-things/Chrome-xp-api-adapter/releases As posted by 66cats, the latest version of this alternate lib is 1.2.0.5065 ... Judging by your own (relatively powerful) H/W Dave, do you really need to use this alternate implementation? Can you spot noticeable differences between official 1.1.0.5018 and unofficial 1.2.0.5065 ? Cheers ...

Yep, but Vista does. NT6.0 is more tolerant to non-MS certs. With XP one's gotta pay.

Windows Hardware Certification Kit User's Guide Article 26/02/2017 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/hardware/hck/jj124227(v=vs.85) Bear in mind, it's not that simple as it may seem. Probably, the easier solution would be to use a third party cert tool, such as guys who made a signed driver for their old VM ware XP driver using some Chinese certification system. Sorry, can't find the link, it was a long time ago. That said, I used to sigh my modded nVidia drivers with other methods, unfortunately XP wouldn't accept them.

OK, I tried both DLLs on Supermium, playing 4K video full screen on YouTube, and I could see no significant difference with the performance. They were both juddery, but perfectly watchable. 1080 HD is fine with both of them. Are there any other tests I can do to compare them?

There is nothing wrong with a little more security, no matter how experienced you are. But it must not lead to the computer being totally overloaded. My real-time protection is always partially switched on or off as required. Web protection and exploit protection are always activated. My old computer copes very well with this.

An antimalware/antivirus programme which generates more than 1465 registry entries can't be really light on resources, IMHO. What do you actually mean by "light on resources"? What about disk, RAM and CPU load? Any values?

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Decompilers won't give you the comments or meaningful variable names. Then there's the structure of the code tree and how code is split up. Certain optimizations can also change code in some ways, so again, you're getting back something different than what was originally written by the programmer.

Check whether the "ExtensionManifestV2Availability" policy is active.

In Vista+ (where hardware acceleration works by default), for me, there's no difference. In XP, this progwrp.dlll allows HW acceleration.* With HW acceleration enabled, you should see measurable improvements in browser benchmarks like Speedometer 3.0, especially in graphics benchmarks like MotionMark (50 to 100% higher scores on my HW). Can't say the difference is immediately obvious outside of benchmarks. *To enable HW acceleration, launch Supermium with --use-angle=d3d9 --ignore-gpu-blocklist. This setting won't work with older GPUs/may introduce additional issues (v1.2 is still "pre-release").

the interface on Windows 95 was faster. At least it had visible scroll bars that didn't require hovering over to make appear.

No, but I'm 100% certain that company selling software to the Department of Defense are vetted inside out by the NSA and have a tight cooperation with them. That's way above my level but I guess most AV/security programs are fiddling with files and has its own kerneldriver to protect its own files and hook into other files including system files.

I've just updated to Supermium 124.0.6367.245, and it seems to be working fine on XP SP3 x86. It didn't however work with the version of progwrp.dll that I was using before, which was 1.2.0.5058. When I changed to the version which was bundled with the browser, which was 1.1.0.5016, it all came good. Is that the best version to use, or is there a better one?

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ELDEN RING: Shadow of the Erdtree - Deluxe Edition v12.1 gets "Windows 7 Fix", I'm interested how it works (or don't) on a native DX11 only card.

Do they actually work in this new 124 version? Did you test them? https://browserleaks.com/client-hints

I can, with the list of all flags the OP provided, I think it's related to IP. Without these, of course. --cipher-suite-blacklist="0xc013,0xc014,0x009c,0x009d,0x002f,0x0035

You have to understand that closed source is dead, but this is not a well known fact yet. Basically, there are LLMs that can reverse engineer* compiled binaries which means nothing is secret anymore. The only way for legacy corps to keep their stranglehold on things is to make a move to remove the openess of source, at least in a legal definition sort of way. *either decompilation or re-writing disassembly to another language

I'm a French national. I'm an ex-military. But not retired completely. As of now, I work in a private sector. I visit different countries. And what if I visit United States to collaborate with, say also military men who are on active state duty, as a private contractor, not clear from these explanations. It can be a prolonged period, say 4 months or even more. I see you're quite familiar with the subject. Could I use Kaspersky, then?

What do you mean by "persons". Is it a somewhat specific group of people, or maybe officials, like person-non-grata? Probably you wanted to write citizens? Strange, suspicious English, mind you.

No. This extension is only available for Chrome browsers (now in version 0.6.0) or Firefox-based browsers supporting webextensions. For New Moon 28, you have to use other solutions.

Yep! I observed that issue, too. DASH videos don't play properly in New Moon 28 via Invidious. More codec configuration options would also be welcome. BTW, I totally forgot to mention the use of the extension uTube. If one only wants to watch single YouTube videos, for example, in New Moon 28, then this extension is really great.

Yes, right, MKVToolnix, for example.

What do you mean "maybe"? Western software is everywhere, and on the leading positions. "Maybe" is not the right word in this case. There's simply no alternative. I tried some software from Eastern Europe, including Avast, it was terrible. It's not only my opinion, it was a huge scandal with Avast. Regarding "freedom", written by you in CAPSLOCK, it's a very old KGB playbook, literally everyone is aware of it, it's when our foes use Western freedoms against our systems. I support the US Government decision to ban Kaspersky. I have another question, why did they allow it in the first place? It's more a rhetorical question now, but in any case, it points out to something fishy among the midst of US services, because it's always too obvious with Russia, what it will do and so on. I wish it was just humour! Nevertheless, thanks for the compliment!

The Hitman Pro scanner has been on my internal list for a long time. I had tried it once, but was rather disappointed with the newer versions compared to older ones. In addition, the programme can only be used for 30 days, after which you have to pay then. So, it is commercial with a free trial period.

You are talking about an ancient Kaspersky AV scanner but you didn't provide any information about its version and year of origin. Therefore, all your statements are rather vague and unspecific. Nobody can do anything with them. When talking about a particular piece of software, it goes without saying that the name, version number, date of creation and a link should be given. Otherwise, any further discussion is pointless.

No need to use a very old AV scanner if more recent ones are available. When it comes to antimalware programmes, it is not only the up-to-dateness of the virus definitions that is crucial, but also that of the scan engine. The rule really does apply here: the more up-to-date, the better.

Was produced at a Russian military installation factory in Zelenograd (Federal subject: Moscow), I again know this from now non-secret documents. The second manufacturing site was somewhere in Taiwan. Considering the fact it was sold throughout the whole Combloc, including Poland, it was a big market. But then again, the OP might be too young to remember.

Actually, it's pretty close to the Russkies' meaning, out-of-service combatants. Gruz is officially used in Russia language as a very common word, I had seen it through numerous documents I worked on when studying them, though I wouldn't be surprised if the word is of Polish origins. Russia language has tons of French and German words. I sometimes wonder if they have their own at all. The core of their language is based on a gimped version of old Greek, adding numerous European words later on, then simplified for the local use and pronunciation.

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