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  1. AstroSkipper
    Thanks again for checking and confirming! Thus, according to your observation, Malwarebytes v1.75.0.1300 is receiving definition updates again. Unbelievable! I will have to try this out at the next opportunity. Maybe, someone else here in the forum is using this version and can confirm this. @Monroe Can you be so kind to provide a screenshot from the update tab of Malwarebytes v1.75.0.1300 to have a look at your data in terms of definition updates? I tried this version again, and updating doesn't work at all. Malwarebytes can't connect to its host for updating. Thanks in advance!
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    Thanks for your nice words and your trust! Although I considered Kaspersly to be avoided due to significant security risks, the mature readers of this thread have to decide for themselves whether to use such software or not. Talking about Kaspersky here in my thread is not off-topic, though. It is rather a topic that I think has been discussed enough by now. And to permanently offer others something that you are not willing to use yourself is somehow questionable. Anyway! I only decided not to write an article about Kaspersky and not to offer it as an option for Windows XP. But as always, readers must answer to themselves for the use of such software, which is fraught with considerable concerns, and then also bear the potentially resulting dangers themselves.
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    For all owners of a computer with a processor, that does not have more than the SSE instruction set, the air is getting thinner. The number of antimalware programmes that offer real-time protection has shrunk dramatically in recent years. The End Of Life (EOL) of Avast Antivirus 2015 was to be expected in any case. Like all AV providers, old versions are no longer supported after a certain point, and thus no further virus definitions are delivered. As a first measure, I recommend to save the last offline definition updater, when automatic definition updates will stop, to use this version as long as wanted and to have the possibility of a later reinstallation. Here is the link of the definition updater for Avast Antivirus 2015: https://install.avcdn.net/ivps9x/vpsupd.exe And for all those who, like me, have withdrawn their trust in Kaspersky and still need an antimalware programme with a background guard for their old computer after September 2023, there will be another solution beyond Kaspersky. I will write about it soon.
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    Running the most recent, corrected version of Serpent 55 (2023-07-14) (rev 80e0e6c0d), basilisk.exe is starting and running fine again as it should. No further crashes observed. Big thanks to @roytam1 for the quick fix! Cheers, AstroSkipper
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    But running the most recent version of Serpent 55 (2023-07-14) from today, basilisk.exe is crashing in the module mozjs.dll at startup such as @DanR20 already reported. Here is a screenshot: Cheers, AstroSkipper
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    I am running Windows XP Professional SP3 32 Bit on real hardware. Serpent 55 (2023-07-07) is starting and running fine here without any problems. Here is a screenshot as a proof: Cheers, AstroSkipper
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    Thanks again for checking and confirming! Thus, according to your observation, Malwarebytes v1.75.0.1300 is receiving definition updates again. Unbelievable! I will have to try this out at the next opportunity. Maybe, someone else here in the forum is using this version and can confirm this. I had a look at the version history of ZA and searched for announcements. The support of the Internet Protocol 6 (IPv6) seems to have been added only in the version 7.
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    Thanks for this nice statement! And thanks for your detailed report! I asked you if you'd use the IPv6 protocol because old firewalls like Sygate or old versions of ZoneAlarm might lack of this feature. But the IPv4 protocol is no problem for them, of course. Are you still receiving most recent definition updates dated of July 2023? As far as I know, Malwarebytes stopped rolling out those updates for all versions below 3. Please be so kind and check again the date and version of your last definition updates! I tried the version 1.75.0.1300 months ago, and it didn't work for me.
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    Thanks for reporting! And no problem! There was no hurry. I'm afraid I can't forget that easily. I can remember very well. This antivirus feature, no one wanted to have seriously. So you still satisfied with this version in 2023, and it works as it should? Do you use the IPv6 protocol?
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    This oddity I had already observed in old Firefox versions. Sometimes, extensions, which had been placed in the browser's folder in browser\extensions subfolder, weren't recognized when starting the browser. Maybe, this issue hasn't been really fixed and is thus still present in all forks. Just an assumption! In my case, I therefore don't place extensions there anymore.
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    ... Thanks for the confirmation! Can't replicate. Maybe 2023-07-70 was updated? I downloaded just today, after word the about:addons thingie was working. @dmiranda! The download dialogue window in Serpent 52 looks broken from time to time. Here are two screenshots to show you the issue: One time as usual: The next time broken: Cheers, AstroSkipper
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    It happens only in my fresh profile of Serpent 52. In my main profile, Classic Theme Restorer and Download Manager S3 are installed. No such issues there!
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    As I already wrote in my previous post, I use the latest version of Serpent 52. I didn't notice any problems with the built-in download manager. All downloaded files are shown in the list correctly, but the download dialogue window looks broken from time to time as yours above. One time as usual, the next time broken. Very strange! Anyway! You can try the extension Download Manager S3 4.13! It changes the view completely.
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    Thanks for reporting here! Glad to hear ClamWin is still working. I use it in an old Windows ME partition which I haven't booted for a long time. This partition only exists for historical reasons. But thanks again!
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    Nevertheless, I reserve the right to decide whether or not to write an article about ZoneAlarm. At the moment, it is on my internal list of security programmes. Maybe, someone who is still using ZoneAlarm on Windows XP can post their experiences here. The more, the better! @Monroe Are you still using ZoneAlarm on Windows XP? AstroSkipper I forgot to mention that the last compatible version of ZoneAlarm for XP was the version 14.3.119.000. Here is a link where the EOL of ZA was announced: https://support.zonealarm.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001849832-Is-the-Windows-XP-operating-system-still-supported-by-ZoneAlarm-products- Cheers, AstroSkipper
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    Hello @roytam1! I use Grabit (in the version 32.0) instead of FlashGot in Serpent 52 (basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20230708) and in New Moon 28 (palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20230708). Is Grabit affected, too? I have checked both browsers and can't see any problems in terms of broken dialogues. Grabit simply does its job. FYI, Grabit is a fork of FlashGot, but I think you are already aware of this extension. Some minutes ago, I also checked Get'emAll! in New Moon 28 and couldn't observe any broken dialogues, either. Maybe, you could be so kind to describe these errors more detailed to understand what you mean. Thanks in advance!
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    Yep! But there were definition update problems in the past. And the programme itself doesn't seem to be regularly updated anymore. The last ClamWin version 0.103.2.1 is from June 2021, unfortunately.
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    Yep! Using the hosts file instead of a good firewall does not make any sense and is counterproductive.
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    Right! I definitely can confirm that. Surfing the web with IE 6, malicious windows were popping up left and right. All became better when Firefox appeared and the first content blocker extensions. I started to use Firefox with extensions from the very first. And I also think that software got more resilient over the years in general. Yep! I think so, too. Although there are a lot of things I do manually, it does not make sense to re-invent the wheels.
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    Subject: ZoneAlarm Here is my assessment on the firewall solution ZoneAlarm I wrote in another thread in June of 2022: Nevertheless, I reserve the right to decide whether or not to write an article about ZoneAlarm. At the moment, it is on my internal list of security programmes. Maybe, someone who is still using ZoneAlarm on Windows XP can post their experiences here. The more, the better! @Monroe Are you still using ZoneAlarm on Windows XP? AstroSkipper
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    Misspelling doesn't matter at all and was not the reason I had to laugh. It was the zoological classification of this firewall. Personally, I found it funny. And a bit of humour definitely can't hurt in this thread. In any case, thanks for your interest and support!
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    This thread was created by me for everyone who wants to use Windows XP as securely as possible. It doesn't matter whether novice, experienced or advanced user, or even expert. Therefore, antimalware programmes with real-time protection are particularly important. Unfortunately, they have become rare under Windows XP due to well-known reasons. One more reason to collect and preserve information about all available security programmes which still work under Windows XP in these days. If you are interested to create an own thread about browser security or whatever, just do it! But this thread is about all available security programmes targeting Windows XP only.
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    Right! So what do you want to win? Agreed!
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    The reason I wrote this post is very simple. Cloning or imaging a hard disk which has errors will usually fail due to read errors. Good copy programmes report these unreadable or unsuccessfully copied files and skip them. In such a case, much better. Generally, I use special backup programmes to make complete images of only working, error-free system partitions. I never clone a drive completely. Other files outside of my system partitions will be backuped or synchronized by different tools depending on how I want to handle them.
  25. AstroSkipper
    @Monroe! Cloning or imaging a hard disk is the best method to get a backup including the file system structure if the drive is error-free. But if your hard disk has already errors, it will be better to copy all files using a copy programme such as TeraCopy (or similars) which reports all unsuccessfully copied files and skips them. You can set TeraCopy to check the hash of each copied file. It will backup all files that are readable, and you'll definitely know which files are problematic and to be restored.
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