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I of course wish all the best to the developer! But they write on github, basically no browsers after 109 from 2022 and suggest to use ports from/for Vista.

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3 hours ago, D.Draker said:

I of course wish all the best to the developer! But they write on github, basically no browsers after 109 from 2022 and suggest to use ports from/for Vista.

That's right. That's what the developer wrote.

"I will not be spending effort to target discord, chromium or steam."

https://github.com/vxiiduu/VxKex/issues/79#issuecomment-1564607047

I think we can now forget about it, officially.

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Windows 7 extended kernel simply won't load any Nvidia drivers after the summer of 2021 (Release batch R470), just like the usual Windows 7, I guess the support wasn't added either.

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6 hours ago, Karla Sleutel said:

Someone knows, is the situation with AMD drivers better?

All the same, my neighbour tried some time ago.

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4 minutes ago, AstragonQC said:

At the general surprise, a new version of VxKex just dropped today!
(No joke, I was opening GitHub while drinking water, I read the release and I almost chocked!)

Thanks for the update! I was waiting with bated breath for a new version!

@alzcore397

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Panda security detects the installer KexSetup_Release_1_1_1_1375.exe as trojan.

Firefox marks te file as dangerous, as well.

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4 hours ago, Sfor said:

Panda security detects the installer KexSetup_Release_1_1_1_1375.exe as trojan.

Firefox marks te file as dangerous, as well.

It makes sense since it installs modified unofficial Microsoft dlls to your system.

It's up to you whether you trust VxKex's developer or not.

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4 hours ago, Sfor said:

Panda security detects the installer KexSetup_Release_1_1_1_1375.exe as trojan.

Firefox marks te file as dangerous, as well.

It's more the installer, which is a self-extracting archive that runs the installer once it's done that is flagged, not the VxKex files themselves.
My AV (BitDefender) never complained about the files stored in Program Files after installation is done.

 

Just now, TSNH said:

It makes sense since it installs modified unofficial Microsoft dlls to your system.

It's up to you whether you trust VxKex's developer or not.

It does not. It's written on the project README that VxKex does not modify any of your system files.

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3 hours ago, TSNH said:

It makes sense since it installs modified unofficial Microsoft dlls to your system.

It's up to you whether you trust VxKex's developer or not.

I don't remember the kernel made by @win32 was flagged by any AV.

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5 minutes ago, AstragonQC said:

It does not. It's written on the project README that VxKex does not modify any of your system files.

Yeah I know that, it doesn't replace anything still installs them. Also it adds it's own tab to the file properties dialog

5 minutes ago, Karla Sleutel said:

I don't remember the kernel made by @win32 was flagged by any AV.

Right, but for example Supermium by win32 was: https://forum.eclectic4un.me/viewtopic.php?f=89&p=605&sid=17c82f4acdcb73e724057ac0464dd0b7#p605

"Adware [...] installs modified versions of popular browsers on affected Windows systems. The browsers installed by Adware.Ghokswa have different start pages, new tab settings, and search settings than the original browser."

So basically everything that is a modified version of something common has a high risk of getting a false positive.

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On 1/3/2024 at 5:35 AM, Saxon said:

That's right. That's what the developer wrote.

"I will not be spending effort to target discord, chromium or steam."

https://github.com/vxiiduu/VxKex/issues/79#issuecomment-1564607047

I think we can now forget about it, officially.

I would not take this all too serious, several new versions have been released since then and Chromium as well as Discord are listed in the supported/compatible applications list by now. I am hoping that the third one mentioned, Steam, will be soon as well :).

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