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Thanks @jumper it looks as if it's still working for you too. I will ask xper (he's on holiday at the moment) if he can suggest why it may not be working for some members. -
Thanks @Tangy! Good to know that Panda seems to be OK for you as well now. Whether it will keep working on XP long-term remains to be seen, of course, but if you have a paid version, it seems to be about the only option for XP which includes real-time scanning, albeit online rather than local, plus a firewall and protection against dodgy websites. Let's hope it keeps going!
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I've raised this with xper. Apparently it's bots attacking the server. Using something like (dare I say it) Cloudflare would probably prevent this, but that would cost a lot of money, which we haven't got. 😟
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Hmm. I just tried pasting my image where your image should have been, and it seems to have worked! I'll need to consult xper about this.
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@NotHereToPlayGames That balloon picture was copied and pasted into the editor and seems to have posted fine. What actually happens when you try it? Does it not post at all, or does it post but without the image?
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OK, I have now tried it on my netbook, using Supermium 144. I'm sure my desktop at home will be the same. It seems to work for me. I opened my image viewer (xnview classic), opened an image, right clicked and selected 'copy'. I then opened this reply, right-clicked, and selected 'paste'. The image appeared as an attachment and was inserted into the post. The keyboard shortcuts also worked. So, I don't know why it's not working for you I'm afraid. This is off-topic here of course, perhaps if you can't resolve it you could report it in the site issues section.
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I don't know. I've always just browsed for my image files, added them to the attachments on the post, and inserted them into the post. You should be able to drag and drop too, but I've never tried pasting directly from the clipboard. I'm not at home at the moment, but I will try it when I get back to my desktop machine again. I know some members have restrictions on the number of attachments they can store, maybe you need to delete some old ones. I can't remember what the restriction is, and I don't now have one as I'm a moderator. 😁
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Not as far as I know. An image is an image, and I can't imagine that the forum software has any way of telling if something is a screencap. It looks like you managed to do it in your subsequent post, so it was probably a temporary glitch. We're having a lot of problems with bots at the moment apparently, which is why the forum has been a bit flakey recently.
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I'm running 22.03.05. There is a more recent version 23, but it appears that isn't XP compatible, as if you try to install it on XP, you actually get 22.03.05 instead. I had no reply from the direct Panda support people responding to the report forms I sent them, which didn't surprise me at all! Nothing from the people at AnyTech365 either, which did slightly surprise me as they seemed to be pretty good. They had said that they would let me know about ongoing support for XP.
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OK, me again! I hope I'm not jinxing it, but Panda Dome seems to be working properly again now for me on XP. I hadn't had a stop and restart of the main service for a few days, so yesterday I removed my shortcut files exclusion. All still seems to be working fine. Can you confirm this @Tangy? Whether they have fixed it as a result of our reports or whether they realised the problem themselves, I do not know. I just hope now that it keeps on working! It does look as if XP support is still a thing for Panda Dome, at least for now! Cheers, Dave.
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Thanks! I've now simplified my exclusions by simply excluding all files with the LNK extension from scanning. As the folders I had excluded were all full of shortcuts, I thought this was more elegant and it still seems to work. I'm still getting occasional stops and restarts of the main Panda service, but it is usable. All the Panda functions seem to be working fine when the service is running.
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Sorry for the delay in responding again. Nothing has changed since my last report, the program is working, with my folder exclusions applied, with only occasional stops and restarts of the main Panda service. I can live with that in the short term. I'm still hoping, of course, that a fix will be applied and it will all come good again. Nobody has any definite evidence that Panda have deliberately stopped their XP version from working properly, only speculation. I will wait a while and ring AnyTech365 again if I've heard nothing from them about this. They will be as anxious as I am to get an answer from the Panda developers about this, I'm sure, as they will need to be able to give accurate support information to anyone else asking about this problem! Assuming that they do have a direct channel of communication to them, and it would be pretty stupid if they didn't, hopefully it won't be too long a wait for an answer, one way or the other.
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I got a response from Watchguard technical support. "At this time, we have not received any official communication indicating that Windows XP support for Panda Dome has been discontinued. Based on the information currently available, Windows XP continues to be listed as a supported operating system for the legacy Panda Dome version referenced on the Panda website. Based on the information you have provided, this issue appears to be related to **Panda Dome**, which is a consumer (home) product. While we understand your concerns regarding the recent crashes of **PSANHost.exe** on Windows XP, we are unable to investigate or provide support for Panda Dome through WatchGuard Technical Support." So it appears that they only deal with professional business customers at Watchguard support, and they can't help private domestic customers. I would have to use the domestic support channels for Panda support, which I've already done, of course! The guys at AnyTech365 have promised to let me know if they hear anything about the status of XP support from Panda, so all I can do is wait.
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I'm using Office 2010 on XP.
