AstroSkipper

@Dave-H The more recent portabel versions create a sub-directory called RogueKiller with some files, i.e. settings, logs, reports and signatures inside. But they do not load any drivers which, however, are necessary for real-time protection. Apart from that, I already posted a screenshot of the main interface of the portable version where I marked red: Schutz in Portable-Modus nicht verfügbar which means translated: Protection not available in portable mode. BTW, I found this in their changelog: Although the most recent installer version 16.5.4.0 wasn't able to load its driver when I tested it, it is possible that some previous installer of version 16 still work under Windows XP, even if the Adlice homepage now requires Windows 7 as a minimum requirement. Have a look here: Maybe. it is again an issue of the free version. What you can do is to try out the most recent installer version or a previous one as a 30-day trial version. Then you will definitely know and can report back here.

Yes. Try a quick scan and you will see. The real-time protection is not available in the portable version, even using the premium one.

But only in the hope that the older installer versions will continue to be supported and supplied with signatures. You buy a license, but the current installer can no longer be used under Windows XP. The portable version is unfortunately restricted compared to the installer one.

You can't directly find such links on their homepage. I checked the current links and replaced the file name to the one I wanted. Here is a link to their portable 32-bit version 15.19.2.0: https://cloud.adlice.com/owncloud/index.php/s/QE2fq4D24A1IKEb/download?path=15.19.2.0&files=RogueKiller_portable32.exe. I checked the most recent version again. The installer version 16.5.4.0 doesn't work properly under Windows XP but the portable version 16.5.4.0 still seems to work.

What do you mean by this version?

But the free versions of RogueKiller Anti-Malware don't offer any real-time protection. And they are quite restricted. They don't even offer a custom scan in the free version. If, for example, you want to perform a scan on drive c: only, you have to be very tricky. In any case, it can't be a replacement for Malwarebytes Premium 3.5 unless you purchase a licence.

Yesterday, I was also checked by Cloudflare on two different sites. Both checks were done successfully in New Moon from the package palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20251225-d849524bd-uxp-fd19819276-xpmod.7z.

You can't directly find such links on their homepage. I checked the current links and replaced the file name to the one I wanted. Here is a link to their portable 32-bit version 15.19.2.0: https://cloud.adlice.com/owncloud/index.php/s/QE2fq4D24A1IKEb/download?path=15.19.2.0&files=RogueKiller_portable32.exe.

To rule out the possibility that my system could be causing the strange behaviour and problems with Panda Antivirus Free 21.01.00, I conducted a thorough investigation. I manually cleaned the registry of installation residues. Unnecessary items were uninstalled or deleted. A lot of storage space has been freed up. The swap file was deleted and recreated. Start-up files and the swap file were optimised. A thorough malware scan and several defragmentations were performed. That's all I could do. Without Panda, the computer ran perfectly.

Yesterday, I did a check of the system partition c: using RogueKiller Anti-Malware Portable 15.19.2.0. And today, I have installed Panda Antivirus Free 18.07.04 from 2019 for testing purposes. Let's see how this version performs.

The online scanner virustotal.com is ok for checking single files to get further opinions if a file appears suspicious. But that was it then. It will never be a replacement for an antimalware programme.

The most recent version of RogueKiller Anti-Malware is 16.5.4.0 which doesn't seem to run properly under Windows XP. Due to my tests, I can confirm that RogueKiller Anti-Malware 15.19.2.0 runs well under Windows XP. I have already updated my article accordingly. Since the 16.x.x.x versions, Windows 7 is required as a minimum according to their homepage. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

Bad news about eScanAV Anti-Virus Toolkit (MWAV)! Their free antimalware scanner can't be updated anymore. I also tried to manually do it with their (weekly) offline virus database updater but this doesn't work either. Here is a quotation from their website https://www.escanav.com/en/mwav-tools/download-free-antivirus-toolkit.asp: And if you update the programme without knowing any better, it will be updated, but rendered unusable with an error message that does not tell the truth.

And in case anyone thinks I'm hallucinating, here is a proof for my observations:

I examined the crash dump files which were created for the PSANHost.exe process after crashing. The crashes also seem to be related to the module psanrknl.exe. And they occur precisely every 60 to 65 minutes, so to say absolutely periodically. Maybe, a time bomb inside the setup file which will be activated when the version has become too old? The Panda Antivirus 21.01.00 setup file is already more than three years old. And if this theory turns out to be true, I'll be really furious and have to reconsider my opinion of Panda.

Forget about the Panda support! I reported the issue twice. The second report was quite detailed. No response so far. Not even an acknowledgement of receipt or the opening of a support ticket. Very disappointing! Although Panda Antivirus Free 21.01.00 is running on Windows XP better than the latest version, even this version seems to have problems. And once again, the culprit is the process PSANHost.exe which yesterday suddenly started to crash from time to time for whatever reason. I'm currently trying to determine the reason for these crashes. This PSANHost.exe is slowly getting on my nerves. Either I solve the problem or Panda Antivirus will be completely removed from my system. The Panda support seems to be non-existent.

As part of my work on ytBATCH, I have investigated many ffmpeg releases that are supposed to be compatible with Windows XP. These include, for example, the releases from @Reino, sherpya and @autodidact. The relatively new ones from @Reino and @autodidact work well with YouTube. But when it comes to TV streams, it's a completely different story. Their latest ones in particular have considerable problems with TV stream URLs. On my old Windows XP computer, negative performance changes are immediately apparent. FFmpeg 3.4.1 from 2017 is too old and can no longer access TV stream addresses. The newer releases 7.1 from 2024 and 8.1 from 2025 require much more CPU power than before. They are therefore problematic for older, weak Windows XP computers. That's why I still have been using ffmpeg releases from 2019 for TV stream addresses.

To be finally on topic again I would like to know why the counting of topic views has no longer been working. @Tripredacus Was it disabled intentionally? Or accidentally? Or is it a forum software bug?

Once again, you're completely wrong. Your cited "free speech" has not existed among you for quite some time.

That's how you act. My posts are always factual and problem-oriented, as befits a scientist. Being on topic is very important to me. But when I see what's going on in your country, nothing surprises me anymore.

@NotHereToPlayGames Once again. This topic is about the counting of topic views. Nothing more, nothing less. Stop your off-topic babbling! I am interested here to know what is going on with the number of views counted by the forum software. Your silly and childish behaviour is rather annoying and, what's more, simply embarrassing.

Absolutely right. This is completely off-topic. That's why I called him "King of off-topics" long ago. No one needs to know. One of his favourite citations. Even called me "Wayward Son" in the past.

Yes. All builds of ytdlp-silent-xp.exe have been tested by me on my Windows XP computer. Unfortunately, none of them are working, not even the latest.

For anyone who isn't familiar with LUA scripts. My mod of the LUA script yt-dlp4vlc does the following: YouTube links entered in VLC are now processed by the YouTube downloader yt-dlp and are then transferred to VLC and played back. Credits to FalloNero. The console window is hidden either by a PowerShell command or by the tool hidecon if the latter exists in VLC's programme folder. Video links without appended quality parameter can now be played again with the quality preset by the user in the VLC settings. The default video codec has been preset by me to h264 so that even older hardware is supported. This can of course be changed in the script by the users according to their needs.

Since the ytdlp-silent-xp.exe file for starting yt-dlp hidden provided by FalloNero is still not working, I modified the code again and cleaned up all unnecessary lines of code. From now on, my PowerShell command "PowerShell.exe -windowstyle hidden cmd /c &" will be executed in the case the hidecon.exe file doesn't exist. If, however, the hidecon.exe file is present in the main folder of VLC, my reduced hidecon command "hidecon &" will be used instead to start yt-dlp hidden. Here is my new mod of the LUA script yt-dlp4vlc: -- YouTube Link Resolver for VLC with Separate Video and Audio URLs -- Place this script in VLC's lua/playlist directory local yt_dlp_path = 'yt-dlp.exe' local yt_dlp_silent_path = 'hidecon.exe' function sleep(s) local ntime = os.time() + s repeat until os.time() > ntime end function probe() -- Check if the input is a YouTube link return vlc.access == "http" or vlc.access == "https" and (string.match(vlc.path, "youtube%.com") or string.match(vlc.path, "youtu%.be")) end function parse() -- Construct the full YouTube URL local youtube_url = vlc.access .. "://" .. vlc.path -- Extract "quality" query parameter if present local quality = youtube_url:match("[&?]quality=(%d+)[pP]?") youtube_url = youtube_url:gsub("[&?]quality=%d+[pP]?", ""):gsub("[&?]$", "") -- Remove trailing ? or & -- Get the preferred resolution preset by the user in VLC local prefres = vlc.var.inherit(nil, "preferred-resolution") if prefres < 0 then prefres = 2160 -- Best quality set to 2160p to overwrite VLC's native value of -1 end local allowed_qualities = { ["240"] = true, ["360"] = true, ["480"] = true, ["720"] = true, ["1080"] = true, ["2160"] = true } -- Default quality limited to the preferred resolution taken from VLC's settings local format_string = string.format("bestvideo[height<=%i]+bestaudio", prefres) if quality and allowed_qualities[quality] then format_string = string.format("bestvideo[height<=%i]+bestaudio", quality) vlc.msg.info("Using requested quality: " .. quality .. "p") else vlc.msg.info("No valid quality specified. Defaulting to best available.") end local cmd_hidden = 'hidecon &' -- Start cmd hidden and ... -- No better codec than h264 (an important switch for older hardware). This can of course be changed by the users according to their needs. local codec_limit = '-S "codec:h264"' local video_url = '' local audio_url = '' local yt_dlp_silent_exists = io.open(yt_dlp_silent_path, "r") ~= nil if not yt_dlp_silent_exists then vlc.msg.info(yt_dlp_silent_path .. " not found. Falling back to " .. yt_dlp_path) cmd_hidden = 'PowerShell.exe -windowstyle hidden cmd /c &' -- Start cmd hidden and ... local cmd = string.format( '%s "%s" %s -f \"%s\" -g "%s"', cmd_hidden, yt_dlp_path, codec_limit, format_string, youtube_url ) local handle = io.popen(cmd) video_url = handle:read("*l") audio_url = handle:read("*l") handle:close() else vlc.msg.info(yt_dlp_silent_path .. " found. Running program") local cmd = string.format( '%s "%s" %s -f \"%s\" -g "%s"', cmd_hidden, yt_dlp_path, codec_limit, format_string, youtube_url ) local handle = io.popen(cmd) video_url = handle:read("*l") audio_url = handle:read("*l") handle:close() end video_url = video_url and video_url:gsub("^%s+", ""):gsub("%s+$", "") or "" audio_url = audio_url and audio_url:gsub("^%s+", ""):gsub("%s+$", "") or "" vlc.msg.info("[YouTube Resolver] Original URL: " .. youtube_url) vlc.msg.info("[YouTube Resolver] Video URL: " .. video_url) if audio_url and audio_url ~= "" then return { { path = video_url, name = vlc.path .. " (Video)", options = { ":input-slave=" .. audio_url } } } else return { { path = video_url, name = vlc.path .. " (Video + Audio)" } } end end Cheers, AstroSkipper