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    Of course the sarcastic fellow had no better suggestions. Here’s one: Forget about extended kernel and stick with Windows 10.
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    Any BSODs, error messages or other problems?
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    Avast 18.8 still receives definition updates, if that’s what you mean. The only question is whether it can tolerate the current extended kernel. It was prone to cause BSODs on build 6003, but Avast created a micro-update to fix that back in 2019. In order to get that micro-update ASAP, I suggest that you use an ONLINE installer from this Avast Forum post. Good luck!
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    I never heard of “blue screen with cursor,” but antivirus programs sometimes caused “black screen with cursor.” Is one or more antivirus product installed?
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    True, but if he’s running build 6002, then the KB you mention is not installed. (Actually .NET 4.8 can be installed with some difficulty, but it does not work!)
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    Unfortunately it appears to have been discontinued. https://msfn.org/board/topic/177099-which-antiviruses-are-known-for-a-fact-to-be-working-on-xp-sp3-as-of-2019/?do=findComment&comment=1238935 Edit: AstroSkipper is now trying Panda Dome. I think Panda still has a free version also. https://msfn.org/board/topic/177099-which-antiviruses-are-known-for-a-fact-to-be-working-on-xp-sp3-as-of-2019/?do=findComment&comment=1239147
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    @legacyfan Have you installed an antivirus on your Vista with extended kernel yet? I would be interested in any failures as well as successes.
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    @yoltboy01 This thread should be retitled “Future of Chromium on Windows 7.” (The future of Chrome on “vanilla” Windows 7 is simply version 109.)
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    I quite agree that no one is going to read a 76-page thread (which will soon reach 77 pages at this rate). On the other hand, replying to a thread (particularly this one) without looking at the original post only causes further unnecessary lengthening, so thanks for nothing!
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    I have a hunch that you are trying with MSE 4.5. Yes 4.5 could be installed on XP, but it was also the first version with a time bomb! You may have found a download that was hacked so that the UI wouldn’t nag about EOL (which was possible with 4.5), but the time bomb was still there. The service probably wasn’t even running. If you want to waste more time, waste it with MSE 4.4.304.0 please.
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    If you want antivirus protection from Microsoft on Vista, my suggestion is to install Microsoft Security Essentials 4.4.304.0. That would disable the old Defender antispyware for you. (If you have version 1.0, then I believe you missed some Windows updates for Defender, but IDK what the KBs were.) Definitions for MSE or Defender can still be found at a Microsoft webpage (but who knows for how much longer), just search for “latest security intelligence updates.”
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    Are you running vanilla Vista or extended kernel?
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    Already listed on page 1 under Content Consumption Software.
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    The OP of this thread was beating a dead horse in August 2020, which is why it attracted no interest. You have now exhumed the remains to beat that horse some more? The older thread cited above contains the entire sad tale. From memory: Once upon a time engine updates for MSE became incompatible with Windows XP. Diehards found a workaround: Retain an older engine and update definitions only. Then one day, definitions became incompatible with the old XP-compatible engine. The icing on the cake is that definition and engine updates have been signed with SHA-2 since 2019, but XP’s cake was already baked before then. Still, someone at Eclipse was working on something just 2 years ago: https://board.eclipse.cx/viewtopic.php?t=115
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    NotHereToPlayGames (aka ArcticFoxie) has already expressed some interest in modifying newer Chinese browsers that still support Windows 7. (Support for XP has ended even in China now.)
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    Welcome to MSFN ItCoder! That possibility was mentioned in a very lengthy AskWoody thread about Defender updates that @Volume Z contributed to, so I do not doubt what you say. Have you actually tried that for MSE updates? (It is astonishing to me that Microsoft hasn’t ended those definition updates yet.) Is there any particular reason why you wish to avoid build 6003? However, any readers who wish to install the extended kernel and/or install Windows updates up to the end of support for Server 2008 (by which time updates were signed with SHA-2) are still going to need KB4474419, which entails “upgrading “ to build 6003.
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    Does the February MSRT 5.110 work?
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    Sounds like Kaspersky could be the official antivirus for extended kernel except for one thing: You wrote 2 years ago that Kaspersky could not be installed in a VM. Has anyone out there had success with another antivirus using extended kernel on a VM?
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    It’s been 8 years since I used Panda Free Antivirus on Windows Vista, so your experience is actually much more recent than mine. FWIW their system requirements still list Vista and XP SP3, so Panda (which is a Spanish company) is perhaps the only non-Chinese antivirus that still fully supports these old platforms, i.e. you would not be limited to using a legacy version. I wonder if it works with the extended kernel?
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    Routers are generally backwards compatible with devices that support only WPA2.
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    I suppose your point is “not Russian” (although obviously not “USA made” either). I must be very bored today because I did a little research, partly inspired by recalled stories of Russian oligarchs stashing their loot in Cyprus. ”The majority of Cyprus’ Russian speakers, some 50,000, live in Limassol...” Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/cyprus-greece-germany-oppose-ban-russia-tourist-visa/ AdGuard Software Limited employees include Igor Lukyanov, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer; Andrey Meshkov, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer; and Dmitry Zaytsev, Chief Executive Officer. Source: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adguard/people So yes, AdGuard is still a Russian company despite having moved from Moscow to Limassol. However, I have no better reason to believe that their open-source software might be risky, so by all means keep using it if you like it.
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    AdGuard is a Russian company, although they moved their headquarters to Cyprus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdGuard My only brush with AdGuard was when I tried Yandex 17 browser on Vista about 3 years ago, which is also a Russian company and had a special arrangement with AdGuard. I was able to replace AdGuard with other ad blockers (which might no longer be possible for that old browser since Chrome has new requirements for addons).
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    The version for Chrome is extremely old: July 20, 2017. If someone is still trying to use Chrome 49 or similar on XP or vanilla Vista, then this might be worth a try. I doubt that it would work with Extreme Explorer 360 or similar because Google occasionally changes requirements for addons. I think most Firefox diehards already have methods of dealing with JavaScript, but some might want to try something different.
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    @AstroSkipper Does WiseVector StopX require SSE2?
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    Of course Chinese-owned Opera is also “extremely high” spyware: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/opera The good news is that Mozilla Firefox is merely “high” spyware according to this source: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox
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