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Avast recognized recent Basilisk.exe from Roytam1 as malware by heuristic engine. I reported that to Avast as false positive.

Heuristic engines are always snake oil (so is Norton's SONAR engine), never trust it. It is always good to disable it, in case you can't do so, add exclusion to folders you don't want it to scan.

To add the needed registry modification, I give here the code for a reg file for activating WinHTTP TLS1.1 AND 1.2 (as described in kb4467770 article): Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\WinHttp] "DefaultSecureProtocols"=dword:00000A00 A download to use file is attached. Short technical info: Override defaults for WINHTTP_OPTION_SECURE_PROTOCOLS to specify TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 Add DWORD value for TLS 1.1 (0x00000200) and / or DWORD value for TLS 1.2 (0x00000800) The resulting registry DWORD value for both would be 0x00000A00. WinHttp DefaultSecureProtocols.reg

As I understand, WinHTTP is used by Applications directly (without the functionality of IE and his API). Often the kb articles are not fully transfered from the basicly descibed OS versions to PosReady, so it can be that 1 also works in XP.

this is one of the many reasons why I have never donated a single cent to Mozilla company they don't want to provide official support anymore... it's OK they have erased the developers labor of thousands of hours over the years and want to force me to stay up to date... it's incomprehensible. sooner or later the Windows updates servers for XP will get shut down as well. @roytam1 we count on you. you are our hope !

Good joke.

@UCyborg , there was a time that I would have been the complete opposite of you, but now two things have changed my stance: not only has there been evidence of performance degradation with recent Windows 8x updates; now there has been very problematic updates for not only Windows 10, but Microsoft Office as well. https://www.ghacks.net/2018/11/20/office-too-microsoft-pulls-office-patches/ https://www.ghacks.net/2018/11/16/look-windows-10-version-1809-has-even-more-issues/