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Well I don't need a firewall or VPN either, but I would like to have website malware scanning, as Malwarebytes has always provided. I will try the Essentials version I think, it's not expensive. I do have ProxHTTPSProxy of course BTW, as you well know! -
I'm actually very impressed so far with Panda Dome, despite my misgivings about it being an online scanner. I would only ever use it on my main desktop, which always has an internet connection, barring occasional outages, so I don't think it's really an issue that it doesn't scan locally. That being the case, I think I'm going to pay out for the 'Essential' version, the lowest paid tier, as that offers website monitoring (I think) and a firewall and VPN. Mind you, the usage allowance on the VPN is so miserly it's pretty useless as far as I can see! I was pleased to find that even the free version has a scheduled scan facility, BTW, I just hadn't found it in the settings!
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I was surprised to find that I already had a Panda account, it must be from when I tried one of their programs years ago! FWIW, my new installation signed into it with no problem.
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Getting back to Panda Dome, I was slightly disappointed to find that it's an online cloud scanner, not something with works locally. However, for something which is supposedly lightweight, it seems to have installed a lot of things on the machine! When I ran the installer, I was offered to tick an 'offline installation' option. This I did, thinking it would be a good idea. When I checked after installation, there seemed to be three new services added 'Panda Cloud Antivirus Service', 'Panda Devices Agent', and 'Panda Product Services'. So far, so good. What I then found though was that there were now no less than 19 (!) new .sys driver files in the System32\Drivers folder. All relating to Panda Dome. What they all do, I do not know. I'm now wondering if they are something to do with the 'offline installation' option, and they're something to do with keeping the protection working if the machine is offline. The other thing which disappointed me is that there seems to be no automatic scheduled scanning option, which I've always used on Malwarebytes. Perhaps it's in one of the paid versions, I will have to investigate.
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Off-topic, but thanks. I have version 14.28.29213 at the moment, so this update is worth having!
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Interesting. This is off-topic of course, but my .NET 4 is recorded as being version 4.0.30320 everywhere in the registry, although its files are still in a folder called 4.0.30319! I wonder what was actually updated to bump the version number. Sorry the new files didn't fix your Panda Dome display problem.
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Here you go, enjoy! Installers.zip
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I also have an installation file for 'Microsoft .NET 4.0.30320 Full'.
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Definitely KB2890375. That is recorded as being installed in my system registry. KB2890573 isn't mentioned in the registry at all, so can't be installed on my system. I have a hotfix installation file for 'MS Visual C++ 2010 SP1 (10.0.40219.473)', so that's presumably what I have installed.
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My C++ 2010 is version 10.0.40219, with a KB2890375 update installed. My .NET Framework 4 is version 4.0.30320, with numerous updates applied.
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I'll wait and see if you get a response from them before perhaps trying RogueKiller again. If they say what is the last version which should work with XP, and whether it still gets pattern updates, then we can go from there. This is my Panda Dome interface - I do have all the POSReady updates installed BTW.
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OK, moving on...... I've now installed Panda Dome 21.01.00. Looks good, it installed with no problem and appears to be all working fine. No initial signs of it slowing down the system startup, which is a relief. It does look as if there's no free trial of the paid versions, unfortunately, which means that I won't be able to check whether real-time scanning works without paying.
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Well 15.8.0 didn't work either, same issue, driver not loaded. According to the changelog, that version should definitely work with XP. I guess all we can do is wait until they respond to @AstroSkipper's support request. As it is at the moment, it's fine on XP for manual scanning, but if you want real-time protection, no versions that have been tried appear to work.
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Already done that! I'm now going to try version 15.8.0 which has the most recent changelog entry which mentions XP. "Fixed issues on Windows XP". So presumably that version did work!
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OK, I've been trying now with version 15. I tried installing it over version 16, and it installed, but then immediately updated itself to version 16 again! Once I'd properly uninstalled 16 and tried again, it has stuck, but of course is constantly nagging me to update it. Still no real-time protection though. The service is loading fine, but instead I'm now getting 'Driver not loaded' instead.
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I've now activated the 30-day trial, which I had forgotten about! Unfortunately, although it has activated other disabled functions, there's still no real-time protection. As you can see, the protection controls are still greyed out. Do you think it's worth trying version 15? I suspect they will just say that version 16 is no longer XP compatible. One other thing I noticed is that if I have it set to run at start-up, there is quite a long annoying pause in the start-up sequence, which is not good!
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Actually, forget the bit about the service, I just needed to reboot! The service is now running, but I still have the 'Protection not available with this operating system' message. Perhaps I should try version 15?
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OK, update time! I installed the portable version of version 16.5.4.0 and that seemed to work fine, although with the 'Protection not available in portable mode' notice. I then tried the installer version, which seemed to install fine, but with the warning 'the service is not running'. I looked and found the RogueKillerSvc.exe file in the program's folder. Running it seemed to work OK, but I now have 'Protection not available with this operating system'! It seems to do manual scans OK, so I don't know what that actually means. Of course there is no real-time protection as it's the free version.
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Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice famously said! I will investigate and report back. I will stick with the portable versions, as they will be easier to clean off the system if I decide not to proceed. I'm hoping that installing RogueKiller/Adlice Protect will not cause problems with it running side by side with Malwarebytes, as I don't want to uninstall that until I know I've got a viable replacement.
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@NotHereToPlayGames Thanks for the clarification! @AstroSkipper Are you absolutely sure that even the premium version of the portable version does not do real-time scanning? That's pretty fundamental, and I can find no reference to it on the Adlice site.
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Oh, that is a PITA! Why does the portable version appear as an exe file? They're usually zip files containing the necessary files for the program to work if it's just extracted to a folder.
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So I could use the portable version of version 16 on XP? In what way is the portable version restricted relative to the installer version, and do you know if that applies to the paid version?
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Thanks, but I was aware of that. If the free version works as it should do, I will be quite happy to pay for the version which is more equivalent to Malwarebytes Premium, for which I've been paying for years, and which I will still be using on Windows 10.
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@AstroSkipper Where can I get hold of RogueKiller 15? All the links bring version 16, which you say doesn't work on XP. I'd like to give it a try as a possible replacement for Malwarebytes Premium 3.5, which no longer receives pattern updates.
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This thread has run its course, and has just set off a lot of bickering with no good purpose. Now locked.
