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  1. Hi ... anyone notice that Malwarebytes v1.75.0.1300 hasn't updated since March 13th. Maybe someone can also confirm this. There are usually 3 or 4 updates or more everyday. There are 12 updates for March 13 so far. I don't remember ever seeing that many in one 24 hour space. Forget it ... just after I posted I read the post before mine ... just didn't see it.
  2. Thanks D.Draker, Karla Sleutel for the information. Still have limited knowledge on the Windows 7 OS and material. Using the last Firefox Windows 7 portable browser but would still like to have a second backup browser. Firefox works very well at this time. Thanks again ...
  3. 1.5 years? I'm afraid not, and I have the same question. I myself am also interested in the Brave browser. I found this today for a portable version of the Brave browser ... not that old ... December 24, 2023. Brave Portable / December, 24th 2023 - 138 MB - Open Source / Latest Version - Brave Portable 1.61.109 / OS Windows 7 64 / Windows 8 64 / Windows 10 64 / Windows 11 https://www.filehorse.com/download-brave-portable/ Is this OK or am I missing something about this download? Thanks ...
  4. Thanks for the replies. I guess I have a slightly newer version. It seems to be working OK. I'm more up on Windows XP than Windows 7 ... so it's all good.
  5. I am using uBlock Origin 1.53.0 currently ... just wondering if this is what most people are using or is there another better working version available. I guess I found this version last October during a search. Thanks ...
  6. This is just pure funny ... a six year old girl with knowledge of swiping her mother's fingerprint and then ordering stuff on Amazon. This girl has been very observant and a fast learner. Wonder what life will be like for the parents when she's ten years old. Thanks to 'the Finder' for posting. This happened last year with a five year old girl ordering from Amazon. "Young Girl Orders - Five Pink Motorcycles, Five Blue Motorcycles, 10 Pairs Of Cowgirl Boots And A Jeep." 5-Year-Old Girl Secretly Orders $5K Worth Of Items From Mom’s Amazon Account. https://theshaderoom.com/5-year-old-girl-5k-amazon-order/ Matthew McNulty / 04 April 2023 ...
  7. The Death of Security: Hackers Can Extract Your Fingerprints from Sound of Swiping Touchscreen https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/02/21/the-death-of-security-hackers-can-extract-your-fingerprints-from-sound-of-swiping-touchscreen/ Lucas Nolan / 21 Feb 2024 Researchers have reportedly discovered a new side-channel attack that can extract a person’s fingerprints from the sounds made when a finger swipes across a touchscreen. Toms Hardware reports that researchers from institutions in China and the United States have outlined an innovative attack targeting biometric security in a paper entitled “PrintListener: Uncovering the Vulnerability of Fingerprint Authentication via the Finger Friction Sound.” This attack utilizes the audio characteristics of a finger gliding across a touchscreen to infer attributes of the fingerprint pattern. more ...
  8. Yes, I understood that when I read everything earlier. Poor choice of words ... should have said "the program now works." Still glad you 'brought it back to life' with some useful changes. ...
  9. AS ... yes I intended to put AS ... yes, I forgot to put "Check My IP Address & Location 1.3" at the very top of my post reply. After I read your reply it came into my head that my VPN has a free Ad ware and Malware blocking program. There are about ten items that can be 'checked / unchecked' as needed or wanted. I unchecked the three items that I had checked and the program now works. I found the filter that was stopping the program from working and will leave that filter off ... it is labeled 'Ads + Trackers' and now everything is good. I had forgot about these free filters that my VPN provides. Been with them for over three years and I hadn't had any filter problems to my knowledge before. I don't need that one filter checked anyway and maybe anyone in the future with a problem can think of possible VPN filters to check. thanks for thr reply and help ... great program. Monroe
  10. Hi AstroSkipper, Just came across this 'add-on extension' by you a few hours ago. Downloaded and added (installed) the extension. I have the green and white button showing in the New Moon 28 and Serpent 52 browsers. Everything works fine with no VPN on or connected. The correct IP is shown. However, when I start my VPN then I get no information ... just this message: Unable to Retrieve IP Information. Please try again in a few moments. I have the program set to check every 5 seconds and a 'check-mark' to alert me when the IP changes. It's really a nice ext to add to the browser. As I said it works with no VPN connected and being that I didn't read where anyone else reported this happening with their VPN connected ... it's not a big deal to me. I keep an eye on the VPN icon in the taskbar and if it does disconnect ... the icon color will change. It's still a nice addition to the browser and is still useful to me. Thanks ... Monroe
  11. Just reading this, I have no Google accounts myself but could this happen with other accounts? I always delete cookies when I close a browser. If this is true and it reads like it is ... could be a game changer. Need to be more alert with banking and other such sites. I didn't see any mention of this already from last October. Hackers Exploit Third-Party Cookies to Access Google Accounts Without Passwords by Lucas Nolan / 9 Jan 2024 https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/01/09/hackers-exploit-third-party-cookies-to-access-google-accounts-without-passwords/ Security experts at CloudSEK have reportedly identified a new form of malware that exploits third-party cookies, allowing unauthorized access to Google accounts without the need for passwords.
  12. D.Draker ... thanks a lot for this information. I guess I am a little confused about MS not supplying anymore Windows 7 updates / support after Jan 2020 and Jan 2023 but they are still helping out with trusted and untrusted certificates. Since late October I have been checking for any Windows 7 updates and it always says "There are no updates available." or "Windows 7 is up to date". I'm on my Win XP computer now but will check out the links you supplied later today. Again thanks for the reply and help. ...
  13. Still mostly a Windows XP user but in September 2023 I decided to get a used ThinkPad Windows 7 notebook. I had mentioned this in another Windows 7 topic after starting to have banking and a few other website problems. After over three months I think I now have good understanding and feel for Windows 7. I finally got my good 'factory' or 'restore' DVD made with my settings and everything to my liking the first week of December. So I'm good to go if I should mess a few things up and need a repair job. I have this one question about Windows 7 Root Certificates and Revoked Certificates since the official MS updates stopped in Jan 2020. With Windows XP we are lucky to have the Certs updater provided for many years now by heinoganda. So what about Windows 7 now in 2023 /2024? I did some searching around over the last two months but really found nothing about updating Windows 7 certs. I would think this would be like Windows XP ... they would need updating also in Windows 7? ... right? thanks ...
  14. No I did not but I will give it a try. About 6 years ago I gave up on watching YouTube videos and started using Youtube Downloader HD to watch videos. I really don't watch that many. They have an XP / Vista legacy version but there seems to be no active link at this time. 'Support for older OS: Windows XP/Vista 32/64 (please, download special XP/Vista release)' Youtube Downloader HD - download videos easily / Youtube Downloader HD Portable Version http://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/ ...
  15. AS ... just discovered this late last night. With all your instructions for installing this new version ... it went well. Thanks for this newer version and all your time involved. I put this newer version on New Moon 28 and Serpent 52 and it all seems good on my end. Thanks again ...
  16. I wanted to rewrite my post from yesterday to a shorter version. Things have become critical in my situation with banking and a few other sites. When I first posted this topic asking for some browser ideas for the new (old) Windows 7 computer that I had bought ... everything was working just fine with my Window XP computer. I was still able to do banking and only a few sites had problems ... but the browsers were still working ... New Moon 28 and Basilisk Serpent, also had Opera portable last Win XP version for a backup. Early in Nov everything started to change with several sites. The main problem and important for me was banking. I no longer could get into my credit union early in the month. I left a week go by thinking they were having problems or whatever. Finally I called and got the bad news that only the most 'up to date' newer browsers were to be used. Not one of my XP browsers would get me past 'sign-in' ... just a message of 'no response from the server' ... tried a few newer Firefox user agents ... nothing. At the login they have posted only Chrome, Firefox, Edge and a few other 'newer versions' will work and no IE browsers will work at all. So I had been working on getting Windows 7 set up to my liking and then getting a 'factory back up' burned to DVDs. So to get to the point ... for now I have installed the last version of Firefox to work with Windows 7 ... Firefox v115 ESR which will still have support into Sept 2024. So for now 'the can has been kicked down the road' till next September. I will check out out some other portable browsers during this time ... I live about 90 miles from my credit union so banking over the internet is important ... much easier than driving through the mountains and country roads. It all just happened so fast ... my hospital plan web site also has been changing for the 'bad'. Sometimes I might have trouble logging in and when I do finally get in ... some parts of the site no longer work for me ... there will be some messages waiting to be read and I can no longer read them. The web site is still mostly operational for me but the signs are there for the future. The newer Firefox hopefully will solve that issue for now. Here's the Firefox information on Windows 7 in case others like myself didn't know or are having problems. "Firefox users on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 moving to Extended Support Release Firefox version 115 ESR will be the last supported release for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. Mozilla is providing critical security updates through the Firefox ESR channel up until the end of ESR version 115, September 2024. After this, no security updates are provided and you are strongly encouraged to move to a supported version of Microsoft Windows." Firefox ESR, Portable Edition 115.4.0 https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox-portable-esr I just extract Firefox out of that download. So my Win XP computers are still good to go but Windows 7 will be needed for logging into some web sites ... if not most web sites. Will follow ideas posted here about other browsers but my problem 'popped up overnight' so to say and for now Firefox portable has fixed it. This post is still kinda long. thanks ...
  17. Cixert ... thanks for all that information. My problem was not being able to get IE 11 to work so I could go online to the MS update page. I was able to do it once and thought I had a good backup of everything but I did not. The program I had works great for a Windows XP image backup and it is supposed to work with Windows 7 x64. It did a great backup but would not restore anything. So I did a couple more restores with the T520 recovery disks ... found a good backup program on the internet using my Win XP computer ... but I could not get IE 11 installed until I got two downloads that were needed. So again yesterday I started early in the morning with the T520 recovery disks ... put the 'SP2' update on after and the few extra downloads needed and went right for the Windows update site. Everything worked 100% ... had 73 security updates and 13 non -security updates. All updates downloaded after several passes ... no failures. After the security updates were installed I made a complete backup of the HD ... not going to have to spend all that time again installing recovery disks and updates. Then after the backup was finished, I went back to Windows update and downloaded the 13 non-security updates. All was good, no failures ... so I got off the internet and made another back up with everything on the disks. I wanted two separate backups in case something in the 'non-security' backups messed up the computer. I would not have to go back to 'square 1' ... it took all day ... actually three backups, one set of 5 dvds and then I used two 32GB flash drives. I wanted to be covered ... I am satisfied the backups are good but when it's time to do a restore one day ... then I will know for sure if everything is 100% good. So the backups are my new 'Factory Restore' disks ... hopefully I'm done with the older T520 recovery disks and all the Windows 7 updates into Jan 2020. I don't know if I will look into the updates after Jan 2020 ... just happy to have everything done going into Jan 2020. I appreciate your time involved with your post ... like I said, I didn't have success till yesterday and I could have saved you some work. thanks ...
  18. Thanks for the list. I want to make a complete image backup of everything that was released up to the end date for Windows 7. Then I will always have that complete and will not have to worry about anything 'missing' from January 14, 2020 and before. I am going with this information from M$ ... "Windows 7 support ended on January 14, 2020. The specific end of support day for Windows 7 was January 14, 2020. Technical assistance and software updates from Windows Update that help protect your PC are no longer available for the product." I am not sure about any later updates after Jan 2020. Once I get the image backup made then I will check on updates listed after Jan 2020 and if they will install on my computer. ...
  19. Help with the 'Final Windows 7' updates ... Glad to read about these final Windows 7 updates. Just bought a Windows 7 Pro ThinkPad notebook last month. I want to have all the Win 7 updates on hand before Windows 7 updating goes away. In case for some reason I might need any of them later. So this is my list of updates that I have currently downloaded. I downloaded the SP1 update anyway ... really don't need it since Windows 7 Pro SP1 is on the Recovery Disks. 01 Install KB3020369 for x64 Systems 02 Install KB3125574 Convenience Rollup Update - (SP2) for Windows 7 x64 At the MS forum there was mention about a 'Windows Update Loop Fix' to be able to download Windows 7 updates ... did that. There were many updates to download after 'SP2' but all except for 4 or 5 (I think) downloaded. Now to the downloads mentioned in this topic or post. I got everything this morning from the Windows Update catalog. Windows Update Agent v7.6 downloaded earlier. 01 KB4474419 x64 02 KB4490628 x64 03 KB4534310 x64 04 KB4539601 x64 05 KB4539602 x64 (01-2020) I had KB4534314 x64 (01-2020) downloaded to install but in the above post from ED_Sln ... he states: "KB4539601 replaces KB4534314. And also it can only be downloaded from the Update Catalog, it's not offered through WU." So does this list look like I have all the 'final' Win 7 updates into Jan 2020 and a little after. Just to add, I also downloaded the MS download of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 only as stated by M Soft. "Internet Explorer 11 (64-bit) for Windows 7 ONLY" . ... Thanks ...
  20. Dixel ... thanks for the additional information. I got the downloads and it's more clear now with what you posted. All good ... thanks again.
  21. Ok ... I found UnGoogled Chromium v109.0.5414.120-1 at GitHub Actions ... and also came across this version of: UnGoogled Chromium v117.0.5938.92-1 at Softpedia. Is v117 a newer version? I downloaded Pale Moon v32.4.1 x64 but can't do anything with it till I get the T520 W7 x 64 notebook. So then if I understand correctly ... I put the UnGoogled Chromium v109.0.5414.120-1 into the Palemoon bin folder after I delete everything in the bin folder. Just reading your last post: "I prefer to avoid cmd files for this and use the Official Pale Moon Portable loader and file structure and replace the "bin" filder with the extracted fork files." Just to make clear ... I downloaded the Palemoon-Portable-32.4.1.win64 version. thanks ...
  22. I'm sure there are many more out there somewhere. Just had to throw in the towel with these web pages not working or my Win XP computer just trying to open a page and just getting so 'hot'. Lately, I am having that problem with Amazon. I didn't seem to have any serious problems with Amazon until the last six months. You would think the computer is going to burst into flames or maybe just melt down. I hope this Windows 7 notebook and a better browser will take care of all that. ...
  23. Yes, that is what I mean in this case for 'portable'. ...
  24. Ok ... reading the replies ... the last post by TSNH could be one browser. I forgot that now having a Win 7 computer ... or soon to have one, will get it next week ... anyway, I could use Pale Moon again. I now use New Moon and a few others for Win XP but I can get a few better working browsers now for Win 7. Here is the web page that I can never open to read a story.from. Of course I could just move on but there is interesting news there sometimes. There are a few other sites also. First dinosaur found in Yellowstone. ... but I can't even get the link to post here. https://cowboystatedaily.com/ This is what I always see ... Unfortunately, your browser is out of date Update your current browser to the latest version or download one of these browsers: https://cowboystatedaily.com/unsupported-browser.html I am hoping with the newer notebook and a better browser, I won't run into this problem again or for awhile till Win 7 gets older. ...
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