that’s a thing i haven’t seen in a while

#notgpn

@xyla wait... copyright 2026?!

@maxi avast for windows xp is still being updated
i personally prefer using the older (but still supported version) - the resource footprint is infinitely smaller

also! i host offline installers for all major versions: https://xyla.zip/software/avast/

Index of /software/avast

@xyla so interesting, i knew that symantec endpoint protection and an mcafee corporate virusscanner, before it went to be trellix, was available for xp with signature updates, but avast still invested in xp was completely unexpected
@maxi avast is known for keeping obscene amounts of legacy
until quite recently you could still get timely definition updates for avast 9. like, you know, the one that talks
@maxi La base virale VPS a été mise à jour
@xyla @[email protected] BAZA WIRUSÓW PROGRAMU AVAST ZOSTAŁA ZAKTUALIZOWANA

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@xyla @maxi

@xyla @maxi what do you mean “the one that talks”, why’d anyone install avast if not for the regular jumpscare. TIL there exists avast that DOESN’T talk
@nrab @maxi you can make avast 12 talk i believe (i’ll check that later), but it was default and very extensive until version 10 (and the oldest supported is 12)
@nrab @maxi also versions past 12 don’t talk

@nrab @maxi yeah, you can make it talk, but it won’t notify you about definition updates anymore

makes sense, at that point they were updating them a couple of times a day and on top of that they had hourly microdefinitions (they called that “streaming updates” i believe)

i feel like you could easily go nuts after hearing AVAST! VIRUS DATABASE HAS BEEN UPDATED every darn hour

@xyla 2026 copyright??
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@[email protected] avast for windows xp is still being updated i personally prefer using the older (but still supported version) - the resource footprint is infinitely smaller also! i host offline installers for all major versions: https://xyla.zip/software/avast/

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@xyla i'd assume that won't boot on uefi systems
@wyatt windows xp doesn’t support efi boot
@wyatt some people have gotten post-reset longhorn bootloaders to provide efi boot for xp but it’s incredibly wonky
@xyla i think you are misunderstanding or i am

is this just a minimal windows xp environment specifically for avast or is it for systems that actually run windows xp
@wyatt it uses windows xp’s “native mode” via ntdll.dll
@wyatt as in, it utilises something that already exists on your computer
@xyla Dell latitude XT2, I _adore_ that machine, even though I've had two and neither ever worked right :P
@OpenComputeDesign that’s the original xt, but yeah it doesn’t work right either lmfao