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Thank you for your test results and for trying to shed some more light on the Kaspersky issue! TBH, your test observations are not really surprising. I have to totally agree to a part of your statements as Kaspersky of course contains and hides Russian spyware which I already wrote many months ago. And that's why the BSE in Germany recommended to remove existing Kaspersky installations and to avoid this software years ago. However, I cannot agree at all with some of your other statements or assessments. The categorisation of Western and non-Western antivirus software is simply inadequate and does not accurately reflect reality. The terms Western and Eastern need to be considered in a more differentiated way. Lumping American and European software together is completely wrong, just like Russian and Japanese software. As I have already made clear in several posts, there are clear laws regarding data protection and security in the EU, for example, and especially in Germany. And this is also monitored. However, due to the NSA's thirst for knowledge and influence, I also have considerable reservations about American security software. Besides Russian "security" software the same applies to Chinese ones. In dictatorships and other non-democratically run countries, there is no data protection and security. If a German or other core European manufacturer were to incorporate spyware into a security programme, it would be the downfall of this company, as this would violate both European and national laws. And one thing is clear. This would come to light quite quickly and would have bitter consequences.

Do you have any proof that "win32 or Chromium Team silently implemented ("borrowed") parts of your solutions inside chrome.dll"? I'm not saying it did or didn't happen, I just want to see some proof.

@IDA-RE-things This is not our issue, and there's no reason for people here to feel that they need to take up cudgels on your behalf. You and win32s(s) are on GitHub, and this issue, if it merits it, should be raised and resolved there. FWIW, as far as I can see the 'borrowing' of someone else's code is something which should be asked for in advance as a matter of courtesy, and acknowledged by the 'borrower', and in many cases I'm sure that would be accepted by the code's originator, even with closed source projects. If those niceties were not observed in this case, that's regrettable, but it's between you and win32s(s) and should be resolved on GitHub, not here.

Jody, for the 1st time I agree with you. But let's not forget the reason @win32 left. Such accusations are very serious and interfere with his work, at least the mood. Our goal is to see him back and work together in a pleasant environment, This is still not looking like one,

Do we know who pushes uBO light?

I know, but it was a purely personal suggestion to that specific user, what does it have to do with "99% of Chrome users"? There was no "argument", until you abruptly intervened our pleasant conversation with such baseless accusations. https://msfn.org/board/topic/183484-polyfill-whats-all-this-then/?do=findComment&comment=1268314

You're welcome! NirSoft tools are great. I use many of them for many, many years. Most of these tools are still XP-compatible and even get updates from time to time.

Thanks for testing! However, it is quite unusual that the virus definitions of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.8 with such an old scan engine can still be updated in these days. BTW, for updating the scan engine to version 5900, you can try to use this which I found by accident: https://download.nai.com/products/licensed/engine/intel/5900/ I don't know whether this scan engine update is the right one for your installation, though. Thanks! It worked well!

Welcome! Vista users is what we really need. What does 7601 in the nick mean?

You might want to think about your download behaviour. And about your choice of favourite search engine. Yandex is a very bad choice but a good one to get crap. 200 out of 1000 files flagged that's a quota of 20%. Far too much! All what I can say is .

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1990jvf/new_teams_client_on_windows_10_ltsc/ On Win10 2004+, it should install without jumping through most below hoops. For older versions such as popular 1809, I'm summarizing the relevant post: Install the latest Windows-Updates (2024-01). Install Edge WebView2 Runtime (or Edge itself, which contains WebView2): https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2?form=MA13LH Allow msix sideloading (run Command Prompt as administrator): reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Appx /v AllowAllTrustedApps /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f Enabling “Developer Mode” manually or via Group Policy should also work. Download Teams MSIX: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/new-teams-bulk-install-client#option-1b-download-and-install-new-teams-using-an-offline-installer Install MSTeams via MSIX (run PowerShell as administrator): Add-AppProvisionedPackage -Online -PackagePath "$PSScriptRoot\MSTeams-x64.msix" -SkipLicense It may work with older builds of Win10 1809 as well. Regarding Edge and Edge WebView2, it's probably the best to have both formally installed for best compatibility with stuff requiring WebView2. When both are correctly installed, there's technically just one copy of files for specific Edge version on disk, they're hardlinked together. I had Developer Mode enabled from before, so 3rd step was skipped. I wonder what it would say otherwise. In the last step, I just specified absolute path to where .msix file was downloaded, which was in Downloads folder.

@Jody Thornton and I, we both see this as an optimisation made by @win32, unless it's proven otherwise, it should be the default opinion since Supermium is developed solely by win32. But then again, you're very welcome to take the matter up to the github admins.

Ok. I guess I shall become a GitHub member and "report" both projects. Admit in my "report" that I don't know who is right or who is wrong. Only that I suspect the moderators of GitHub would like to know about possible Intellectual Property Theft occuring on their repositories. Would that put an end to whatever-we-call-this?

NO! We were one million times trough it! Supermium is not open source, neither the dll which is published by @IDA-RE-things.

Why do you post, then? If you don't know. Scroll back and read. In short, a newly joined member @IDA-RE-things accused our long time developer @win32of stealing his code, then the accuser was politely asked by another members to provide proof, instead we only got a longish text from him, without proof. Is it clear?

Fair enough. But I really really really FAIL to see why it has become a DEFENSIVE STANCE. Are these not OPEN SOURCE GITHUB COMMITS? I do not have a GitHub account and, admittedly, "could care less" who borrowed from whom. I myself have seen DOZENS of "my" 360Chrome mods borrowed by various members/countries/websites - don't care, I actually find it as more of a pat on the back that "my" work made it into other people's projects. It's also quite cool and a pat on the back when I see my XP-themed mods make it into YouTube videos - don't care that these videos don't even cite MSFN as where they obtained their XP-themed 360Chrome. These were over a year ago, but I'm sure they are still out there - don't care if they are or are not. Now then, having said that, if I made money on these mods, then yeah, it would be a different story. I guess my only takeaway is this - if you feel "win32" would be equally defensive, then shouldn't this "argument" be at GITHUB instead of here at MSFN? I mean, aren't BOTH of these projects hosted at GITHUB? If terms of service agreements were violated, then there are proper channels to go through to get one or both of these projects removed.

You seem to be ignoring this part of his post. Your interpretation still seems quite "defensive" and "retaliatory". Almost as if you WANT this to be YOUR fight. Chromium commits are PUBLIC DOMAIN. I don't have the time or energy to engage further. Not my fight.

I myself did not see that. I read the same thing you read. I did not interpret it the same way that you did. Language barriers are HUGE here at MSFN. Feel free to ask a moderator if they interpreted it your way or not. I myself did not.

That has been pointed out before. "They" are going to do what they want. You are always welcome to discuss these types of things with a moderator. But, um, "why bother" in my opinion. MSFN has these "birds of a feather". They flock together. They troll each other to upvote/like. Even one of them used to blame other MSFN members for "rep farming" when other members behaved this way. It is what it is. Live and let live. All the rest of MSFN members see it also. And can decide for themselves what they think of it.

On my part, these were not accusations, but a call for fair treatment of a person’s contribution to this or that aspect of the project in which he is involved. And if a person has not done any optimization, then there is nothing to take off his hat to here. About possible borrowing of ideas: He can do this, because he always uses IDA (the interactive disassembler with decompiler) (I also use it of course) and can see anything that is hidden from others eyes. And no one can check is it or no. He done this with the Screensaver Prevention feature for XP: when I announced this feature in my implementation on his issues tracker, He immediately provided some, but improved variant, by looking into code (I have checked this then in my IDA of cource) and he also commented my solution in readme notes for his file :)), this was like a "I see what you do, and know that you see what I do". :)) And the second question is - why would any person help the project if as a result all the glory (or honor) will go to only one? He is not Team-oriented people. And no one works in conjunction with him (I mean programmers, not other possible contributors), although he call himself LSC Corporation. And in general it’s unfair not to praise the Chromium Team then. Because it was they who all improved performance then. @Dixel, -- I have a question for you also. Why any of your posts and anywhere are upvoted/liked by this 3 people: Karla, Saxon, Draker. What is this ("karma-team" ?) ? --- And another question for All : why people should privatize common name of anything: why you call him win32 ? win32 -- is Windows subsystem name and common configuration name for projects. Nothing else. No one person can privatize/personificate this name. Its illegal. Github, for example, not allow such names : https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/acceptable-use-policies/github-impersonation Or take assembler: you can not name the variable by name of register (EAX, EDX, etc.). its reserved. Its all may be not problem for not programmers. But why programmers should see this illegal nickname anywhere in their averyday workflow ? Or not for programmers: one person can take a often used and familiar name "chrome.dll" to associate him with Chromium ? And you will call him "chrome.dll" ? Why and WTF ?

Funny, I find 121 to be very fast, close to 110. I guess it drastically changes when someone runs them with all at default.

Client Hints API is becoming the new detection standard very fast. A good example would be Nvidia gaming site which blocks old browsers with the use of that API, Or streaming sites, like our local one. (can't post the link because it may be seen as an ad).

that GUI bug might be also in the normal sumatra pdf 3.5.2 release i noticed a slight view GUI bug in win7/vista (not win10) - more i could not test (maybe in 8.1 ?) (it is functional but so the sumatra author might not have taken care of vista and 7 anymore) in windows XP the GUI is in-perfect but looks mostly normal and very ok and acceptable and is functional if that problem is meant i only could use a pre version to fix that up (but that is rather work for the sumatra pdf author - it happend due changes sumatra author did with the GUI) you should test the orginal sumatra pdf first to see if it has these problems the sumatra author has a open forum for problems regarding his programm if you descripe a different GUI problem you might send me a private message with screenshots to that drag and drop problem i noticed that one a bit, if we talk about the same one (but rather it sometimes dont drag and drop always with the first try in 10 that is bugged too - it might accept the file but then you get a error that sumatra pdf could not open that pdf file) - but also you need to test the sumatra pdf i builded up in a win10 machine first if that same problem apears there = there is already 50 % the reason are the changed for the XP mod then you have to try it with the normal (unchanged official version) also on win10 if both (official and xp modded) have not that problem in win10 - it is a NOT reason related for the changed xp mod if both (official and xp modded) have 1 working and the other is not working - the reason is with the XP mod (100 %) that part might come from what sumatra author called (//hacky but works) the code didnt look so well in this solutions and ended up in a OS specific reaction (this is normally not what you want - rather that would be bad programming)

Probably they too see the empty squares on the site, just like Bing shows?

Netherlands is a rather recent name, our country was called Holland before, not long ago, even in the 1990s.

I started the talk about Chrome 110, and @Dixel wrote what you see as "argument" in the context of @NotHereToPlayGames, who is a repacker/modder, is he not?

I've had all kinds of hardware die, including new RAM modules, but not the ones I bought used.

No solutions as of yet, what they did in the new Ungoogled patch - doesn't block all, btw. It's now more of a partially broken API there, from the looks of it.

Thanks for your confirmation! I also thought that a time bomb had been implemented in the executable. McAfee probably wanted to prevent users from using outdated versions of Stinger. But I wanted a confirmation from others to be sure it's not related to my system only.

McAfee Stinger seems to have abandoned Windows XP in 2021. For testing purpose, I tried to open several stinger32.exe files from 2021 which are supposed to be still XP-compatible but I am always getting the following messsge: "McAfee Stinger executable has been modified and may be infected". Can anyone confirm this?

Thanks for your interest! In the end, I couldn't figure out why the described issue occurred in one Windows XP partition but not in the other. One of the rare issues that I couldn't fix. The good thing is that I am now using a much better startup manager. So, thanks to Glarysoft for this issue!

Of course! I am definitely not interested in collecting malicious files. I don't put that kind of filth on my disc. Thanks to good real-time protection and my online behaviour!

Thank you for another compliment! At this point, I'm starting to have doubts about yours. People asked you to stop posting off-topic. Is it really so hard to understand? That we have no way of checking out with simple ways, unless I poke the guys from CIA I worked with. But then again, it's none of my business, I'm just joining other people of this wonderful thread by @AstroSkipper and ask you to stop the derailing.

How then you explain 110 works for me without dances around the fireplace?

Something's wrong with your Ungoogled. Probably got it from an un-official sources, like Russian repacks? The site works with a random version of Ungoogled 110, which is the bare minimum, the lowest requirement for most sites nowadays.

You got to slim down the installation first, probably use Vista without service pack, It's doable! Turn the page file OFF.

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