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As I already said, it is no longer time to be picky when it comes to real-time protection under Windows XP. And of course, I read such reports about IOBit Malware Fighter. I personally never liked the IOBit company. Their products have never really been any good. And in the case of IOBit Malware Fighter, I can see why. The positives: Easy to install. A clearly structured, very tidy and modern interface. Good usability. Lots of features not usually found in freeware. Excellent uninstallation speed. The negatives: No daily updates as advertised. Today, it’s still installing the version from 9 July. Not really integrated efficiently into Windows XP. When the protection is activated, performance plummets. Version 13 is constantly being promoted, and you’re told to download it, even though it’s not compatible with Windows XP. No self-protection. The scan speed is so poor that I’m lost for words... The scanning speed is the absolute worst I have ever experienced. Smart Scan was cancelled after 123,226 files!!! and 120 minutes!!! with only 5% progress!!! This is no Smart Scan. I then uninstalled it completely. The uninstallation was done in seconds. That just goes to show how poorly the programme was integrated into Windows XP. It was practically just a superficial add-on. And it can even be shut down completely with just two clicks. That’s a goldmine for malware. My conclusion: Looks great on the outside, but a flop on the inside. P.S.: And that’s the good thing about my ancient P4 computer. It mercilessly exposes the weaknesses of software.

@j7n are adamant on NOT using an extension-based adblocker (e.g. uBO) in the browser, because they harbour the conviction that such an extension would considerably impede their browser's performance ; in the past, both myself and other members here have suggested to them the installation and use of uBO, but they still think that their old ways of dealing with ads (blocking "known" ad-serving domains in their HOSTS file) is still sufficient/effective in the web-ecosystem of 2025+ ... Is this on a UXP-based browser (the object of these megathreads) ? Because if you're talking about recent Chromium/Firefox, these now come with built-in ways of dealing with (some of the) unwanted content ...

Custom Install of IOBit Malware Fighter 11.4.0 (easy to install ) Latest Database Version 2608 ( 2026 - 7 - 9 ) Fingerprint : 898269 I ran a smart scan Objects scanned 107.446 Threats Detected 0 as expected Time Elapsed : 20.02 minutes Very light and smooth

New Moon, Serpent or Mypal are a nightmare without uBO. And the forum editor is a nightmare, anyways. I already again reported that some weeks ago. There have been many such reports in the past.

"Good luck with that."

I agree with you. On older hardware, I preferred the HTTP protocol, but what can you do when the world has gone crazy in this race to make life harder? I no longer feel like turning the Amazon River around with a stick.

Yes. New Moon. XP x86 VM (being a VM should *make no difference* in this discussion). I can no longer "paste" screencaps into the post editor (this has been mentioned in other threads, directed at @xp... @trip... @dave-h).

@AstroSkipper Free . I am sure you are aware that reviews have been unfavourable since its inception. Western propaganda ? Regarding Chinese products. Better than nothing is debatable ? Yes, it could run seamlessly along side the Italian one and still be a very light compo. What do you reckon ?

... But as I had pointed out here, your sample Polish radio stream still works in plain HTTP mode ... I never, for the life of me, understood WHY rich media content (streaming video and/or audio) has to be served over HTTPS ; this isn't about security at all, it's not like we're dealing with financial transactions where highly confidential/sensitive data/details are involved... The culprit, once more, is Google and their web-dominating browser, Chrome ; Chrome was the first browser/engine that disallowed the delivery of "mixed" content inside a page (with the known "mantra" of doing so to protect their users from on-line fraud), i.e., if the webpage has been loaded through HTTPS, likely to be a media service's web-player containing page, then the video/audio content inside the web-player HAS to be streamed over HTTPS, too, because otherwise Chrome would block it; thus, the media CDNs are now forced to stream via HTTPS, adding (practically) unnecessary TLS overhead (more easily perceived on old H/W) to the viewing/listening experience ...

Have you updated your uBlock Origin filters? A week ago some new filters have been added to uBlock filters – Ads: /shadow/*adshield$domain=mail.yahoo.com /ybar/mail.yahoo.com/_t/aHR0c*$xhr,3p,domain=mail.yahoo.com

Back again. I'm cautiously confident that I've found another workaround for the problem with Panda Dome, and this one appears to have stuck. I was puzzled as to why the crashes, although sometimes apparently at random, could be triggered at will, at least on my machine. One thing which nearly always triggered an immediate crash, even if the system had been running for some time without any, was to click the Windows 'Start' button. This led me to think that there was some issue with Windows Explorer which was triggering the crash. One other clue was that one of the first things I noticed was that if I clicked Start, even if it didn't crash, the user-added shortcuts were a blank box, only populating after several seconds. I tried excluding Explorer from scanning, but that made no difference. I then tried excluding my whole system drive from scanning. Hey presto, no more crashes! So, by a process of elimination, I eventually narrowed it down to the folders which were triggering the crashes when they were scanned. I now have three folders excluded from scanning – Documents and Settings\[Username]\Start Menu Documents and Settings\[Username]\SendTo Documents and Settings\[Username]\Recent So far this has stopped the regular crashes, and Panda has updated without them coming back again. This is pure speculation, but what I suspect happened here is that Panda rolled out an update which broke compatibility with the Windows XP Explorer, which is quite different from that on later versions of Windows, of course. When Panda tried to scan those folders, like the 'Recent' folder being scanned when 'Documents' is clicked on the Start Menu, this triggered a crash. This is of course only a workaround, not a fix, and the problem could come back at any time, but at least on my system it seems to have fixed it for now. There is a security issue with excluding system folders from scanning, of course, but as the folders concerned only contain shortcuts, I would think it's pretty minimal. If anyone else still has a malfunctioning installation of Panda Dome installed, I would be interested to know if this works for them.