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Below link, http://acs.pandasoftware.com/Panda/FREEAV/Promo_pd/FREEAV.exe will afford a relatively big offline installer, sized ca. 162 MiB, with file version 15.14.5.0 and a digital file signature (SHA2 only) of Jan 11th, 2026; I wouldn't install it, but when opening that EXE with 7-zip, file FREEAV.exe\Program Files\Panda Security\Panda Cloud Antivirus\VERSION.INI reads: [VERSION] VERSION=23.00.00.0000 LINE=4.0 TYPE=Release NINST=20251127_PandaZone BRANCH=PandaZone REV=1 BUILD_DATE=08/01/2026 23:11:41 CID=BE719E91-B06D-4263-8AB5-BF70044CC02B [MODULES] INSTALLER=7.10.00.2104 NNS=7.0.0.638 PSBOOT=1.0.34.0 RKPAVPROC=2.0.11.0 so I assume it to be of version 23 ...
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Panda Dome's support has to be also made aware that while they advertise Windows XP SP3 x86 support, some features of the application (e.g. activation, sign-in to a Panda account) on that OS require ProxHTTPSProxy (or equivalent), which is NOT part of a standard installation of that OS; perhaps they need to "relax" some of the cipher suites needed to establish those secure connections, when XP SP3 is being detected as the host OS; but given their response record so far , I'm not betting any money in them addressing the mentioned issue(s) ...
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... Not to toot my own trumpet , but... Thanks to the one person that (positively) reacted to that post ...
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Per abbodi1406, https://github.com/abbodi1406/vcredist#windows-xp-notice Direct link: https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/566435ac-4e1c-434b-b93f-aecc71e8cffc/0D59EC7FDBF05DE813736BF875CEA5C894FFF4769F60E32E87BD48406BBF0A3A/VC_redist.x86.exe MDL forums reference: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/repack-visual-c-redistributable-runtimes-2020-11-10.76588/page-27#post-1630817 I can confirm that the installer is dual-signed (both SHA1+SHA256), thus it can be verified on XP SP3 (which ONLY supports SHA1 file signatures). As for the installer of version 14.29.30139.0 referenced in the "community.pcgamingwiki.com" site, this has the direct link below (courtesy of abbodi1406): https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/b929b7fe-5c89-4553-9abe-6324631dcc3a/4C6C420CF4CBF2C9C9ED476E96580AE92A97B2822C21329A2E49E8439AC5AD30/VC_redist.x86.exe but it is only SHA256-signed, so I'm not sure if its signature can be verified under XP SP3 : Just my 2c ...
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No offence meant, really, but I don't see the point of your query ; you want a comparison between apples and oranges, when, in practice, the XUL ("legacy") and the WE (MV2) CAN'T be really compared, due to them targeting different platforms/web engines; this thread here is about the XUL variant, which is the only one supported by the (official) UXP-based browsers; actually, roytam1's St52/St55 have retained some rudimentary support for fx-52 level Web Extension APIs, but if you plan on installing there the WE-variant(s) of uBO from ca. 10yrs ago, then you should ditch that idea right away; those ancient WE versions are no match for the web of 2026... TL;DR: UXP-based browsers don't support at all the what you called "newer version Gorhill works on now" ; you are limited to installing the XUL variant; any "academic" comparison is totally moot in this context (similarly, recent Firefox, and its forks, do not support the XUL-variant, only the WE-variant; and currently, that requires fx-115esr and later) ...
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That hotfix was previously under https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54179 but bad MS have now removed that link ; I haven't tried the Internet Archive for retrieval, because abbodi1406 has already archived that link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/E/0/EE05C9EF-A661-4D9E-BCE2-6961ECDF087F/vcredist_x86.exe Mind you, despicable MS had shadow-banned his GitHub repo, thankfully a GitLab mirror exists: https://gitlab.com/stdout12/vcredist/-/tree/master/source_links?ref_type=heads
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... Well then, not wanting to "burst anyone's bubbles" , but, perhaps, Adlice's "idea" of WinXP support is just what has been confirmed so far by your (and AstroSkipper's) tests: on-demand manual scans, only (i.e., you still need a Win7+ OS and a paid-for licence for real-time-protection to be effective); on a side note, Adlice's homepage doesn't breathe much confidence to me ; it appears they couldn't be bothered to change the copyright year to the current value: https://www.adlice.com/roguekiller/ And, FWIW, the support forum (intended to help users of the "free" version) has been turned into read-only mode: https://forum.adlice.com/index.php?topic=3890.0
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... Not only that, but the "DOWNLOAD" button on the linked website is NO LONGER clickable ; even worse, the download link you had previously archived, https://www.escanav.com/en/antivirus-downloadlink/downloadcounter.asp?pcode=MWAV&src=english_dwn&type=alter now returns: ... What a total scam !
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YouTube under Windows XP - Downloaders, players and browser support
VistaLover replied to AstroSkipper's topic in Windows XP
Does this refer to yesterday's latest offering ? https://github.com/FalloNero/yt-dlp4vlc/commit/93ad2eeffdcdaf2cc0a6ef685b57399d7787c789 (built with VC2005 ?) -
... Wasn't/isn't there a native way to do that, without any such extension? Below, a screengrab from a Sm-132 copy:
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My new beloved superhero, @autodidact : https://msfn.org/board/profile/398146-autodidact/content/ This most kind, generous and altruistic person is also a member on the videohelp.com forums, where he's been releasing Win7-compatible FFmpeg builds periodically; and here, he's doing the same for Vista/XP users; in some way, he's picked up the baton from Reino (whose very old, SSE-only, PC with XP died one year ago) ... As I said, it was by necessity ; but I don't think he's regretted it ...
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... @Reino has left the Windows XP "Kingdom" for good and he now resides on Win11 territories ...
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My Browser Builds (Part 5)
VistaLover replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
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Probably for the same reason it doesn't install on WinXP Pro SP2 x64; the Panda devs, in a narrow-minded decision , have hardcoded WinXP to ONLY be NT 5.1; anything higher (e.g. 5.2) is assumed to be Vista+, for which they mandate a version of .NET FW > 4.0.x (4.6 to be precise):
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... Surely a typo, but you actually mean MB there, don't you ...