How much RAM do you have?

[Martingonn]

I need this information because I am developing an AntiVirus for XP. My Virtual Machine with XP Professional SP3 has 2048 mb RAM, which was a lot in the 2000s. Since many of you use older hardware, could you please tell me how much RAM you have and which processor so that I can make my AV efficient for other users like you?
This is the antivirus: https://www.xpforums.com/threads/sentinel-xp-development.935395/
Github: https://github.com/Martingonn/SentinelXP
Thank you in advance for your answers! Have a nice day!
Martingonn

 

[Madeleine Takam]

I need this information because I am developing an AntiVirus for XP. My Virtual Machine with XP Professional SP3 has 2048 mb RAM, which was a lot in the 2000s. Since many of you use older hardware, could you please tell me how much RAM you have and which processor so that I can make my AV efficient for other users like you?
This is the antivirus: https://www.xpforums.com/threads/sentinel-xp-development.935395/
Github: https://github.com/Martingonn/SentinelXP
Thank you in advance for your answers! Have a nice day!
Martingonn

Using 32bit XP either 4GB or 64GB depending on what I choose at Boot.ini. On the rare occasions that I ever use. Don’t use XP 64bit.

I don’t think RAM is your issue. How are you getting your Virus and Malware signatures? Do you have a contract with McAfee, Norton, Avira, Avast, Kaspersky, Symantec or Microsoft? It will be a huge amount of work to keep up to date. Why are you attempting? Is it a school or University project?

I stopped using antivirus software many years ago, on my personal systems, as I realised along with many millions of other technical literate people, it is utterly useless if one has opposable thumbs, more than a couple of brain cells and grown children. Had to use on work systems for insurance until I retired.

What are you using the following below for?

connection_monitor.exe

connection_logs.txt

Why are there two connection_monitor.exe files???

Since your Antivirus will require considerable control of info coming in and out of anyone’s system

What insurance does Marcin Jacek Chmiel. Have in place with what company?

I mean this Antivirus software is why you joined the site isn’t it?

You joined this site the day after you started your “Antivirus” project.

 

[Martingonn]

Using 32bit XP either 4GB or 64GB depending on what I choose at Boot.ini. On the rare occasions that I ever use. Don’t use XP 64bit.

I don’t think RAM is your issue. How are you getting your Virus and Malware signatures? Do you have a contract with McAfee, Norton, Avira, Avast, Kaspersky, Symantec or Microsoft? It will be a huge amount of work to keep up to date. Why are you attempting? Is it a school or University project?

I stopped using antivirus software many years ago, on my personal systems, as I realised along with many millions of other technical literate people, it is utterly useless if one has opposable thumbs, more than a couple of brain cells and grown children. Had to use on work systems for insurance until I retired.

What are you using the following below for?

connection_monitor.exe

connection_logs.txt

Why are there two connection_monitor.exe files???

Since your Antivirus will require considerable control of info coming in and out of anyone’s system

What insurance does Marcin Jacek Chmiel. Have in place with what company?

I mean this Antivirus software is why you joined the site isn’t it?

You joined this site the day after you started your “Antivirus” project.

First of all, calm down. My intention is not to steal any data. I believe in privacy and that is why I use Ubuntu instead of Windows 11. Second of all, there are free malware samples, hashes and fuzzy hashes available:

• MalwareBazaar (abuse.ch) main site:
  https://bazaar.abuse.ch
• Browse malware samples on MalwareBazaar:
  https://bazaar.abuse.ch/browse/
• MalwareBazaar API documentation (for automated queries):
  https://bazaar.abuse.ch/api/
• Export malware hash lists from MalwareBazaar:
  https://bazaar.abuse.ch/export/
• MalwareBazaar GitHub repository (tools and scripts):
  https://github.com/abusech/MalwareBazaar

About keeping up-to-date:

• Hourly and daily malware sample feeds:
  Hourly: https://datalake.abuse.ch/malware-bazaar/hourly/
  Daily: https://datalake.abuse.ch/malware-bazaar/daily/

Also, the connection_monitor.exe checked who was TRYING to connect to you. The log was sent nowhere nor did it have any control. The user had to manually accept blocking connections. Moreover, that was an abandoned part of the project. This is what you should be looking at:

SentinelXP/Sentinel_CPP_Archive at main · Martingonn/SentinelXP

An antivirus for Windows XP. Free, forever. Contribute to Martingonn/SentinelXP development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

I have no sponsorships, no company, no MaLiCiOuS eViL pLaN to control systems, no servers to keep my "stolen data" on. One day my Windows XP Virtual Machine got hacked and even tried to change router files. The only free antivirus that I had back then was Clamwin. No installs, it was a botnet infection. Some AV programs for XP are just plain bad, like Clamwin. Others probably send your data faster than you blink. Many people also use cracked AVs, which can themselves be malware. These are the three reaI reasons why I wanted to create this project - for XP users to have a free, legal and private alternative for an AV. I do agree, it will not be the best and I am glad you got scared about the weird .exe name. I like to name things literally and when a module does something to protect you from attacks, it will be named that. The module checked for suspicious port connections and, with user consent, blocked them. One of my newer modules is called filemon, because, guess what, it shows the user which files are being modified, doing NOTHING ELSE.

My new AV will be offline-based, focusing on preventing threats like RDP by closing RDP port rather than with active connection monitoring.

As for me joining, I joined to ask about a .dll error on my new XP. As you can see, I have posted a lot outside my tiny thread about the antivirus. Selling the information you just gave me, I wouldn't earn a dime, so what's the point of accusing? If I wanted your data and your system, I would have secretly coded a botnet.

I deleted the old .py files so that no one falls for the same mislead conclusion. If you want to see if the project is really spyware, check out the newest releases.

I would be really glad if you looked at the .cpp files with a C++98 programmer, or just simply someone who knows C++. Not even that - my modules do not use any library in C++ that is required to connect to external servers. Libraries are the things at the top of the code, you can look up every single one of them. You can also dump it into whatever you want - VirusTotal.net, an AI like ChatGPT (also web based) - these things could disprove the spyware theory. You can also run it and check network connections - none will come from my AV.

My final plea - please do not do the work for big corpo like Microsoft. This project is open-source and free, anyone can compile it themselves and even remake it into whatever they want... Do not accuse me of spyware/botnet-like behavior before reading through the source code.

It is just sad that a small CPP project in my free time got me accused of data theft...

 

[Madeleine Takam]

First of all, calm down. My intention is not to steal any data. I believe in privacy and that is why I use Ubuntu instead of Windows 11. Second of all, there are free malware samples, hashes and fuzzy hashes available:

• MalwareBazaar (abuse.ch) main site:
  https://bazaar.abuse.ch
• Browse malware samples on MalwareBazaar:
  https://bazaar.abuse.ch/browse/
• MalwareBazaar API documentation (for automated queries):
  https://bazaar.abuse.ch/api/
• Export malware hash lists from MalwareBazaar:
  https://bazaar.abuse.ch/export/
• MalwareBazaar GitHub repository (tools and scripts):
  https://github.com/abusech/MalwareBazaar

About keeping up-to-date:

• Hourly and daily malware sample feeds:
  Hourly: https://datalake.abuse.ch/malware-bazaar/hourly/
  Daily: https://datalake.abuse.ch/malware-bazaar/daily/

Also, the connection_monitor.exe checked who was TRYING to connect to you. The log was sent nowhere nor did it have any control. The user had to manually accept blocking connections. Moreover, that was an abandoned part of the project. This is what you should be looking at:

SentinelXP/Sentinel_CPP_Archive at main · Martingonn/SentinelXP

An antivirus for Windows XP. Free, forever. Contribute to Martingonn/SentinelXP development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

I have no sponsorships, no company, no MaLiCiOuS eViL pLaN to control systems, no servers to keep my "stolen data" on. One day my Windows XP Virtual Machine got hacked and even tried to change router files. The only free antivirus that I had back then was Clamwin. No installs, it was a botnet infection. Some AV programs for XP are just plain bad, like Clamwin. Others probably send your data faster than you blink. Many people also use cracked AVs, which can themselves be malware. These are the three reaI reasons why I wanted to create this project - for XP users to have a free, legal and private alternative for an AV. I do agree, it will not be the best and I am glad you got scared about the weird .exe name. I like to name things literally and when a module does something to protect you from attacks, it will be named that. The module checked for suspicious port connections and, with user consent, blocked them. One of my newer modules is called filemon, because, guess what, it shows the user which files are being modified, doing NOTHING ELSE.

My new AV will be offline-based, focusing on preventing threats like RDP by closing RDP port rather than with active connection monitoring.

As for me joining, I joined to ask about a .dll error on my new XP. As you can see, I have posted a lot outside my tiny thread about the antivirus. Selling the information you just gave me, I wouldn't earn a dime, so what's the point of accusing? If I wanted your data and your system, I would have secretly coded a botnet.

I deleted the old .py files so that no one falls for the same mislead conclusion. If you want to see if the project is really spyware, check out the newest releases.

I would be really glad if you looked at the .cpp files with a C++98 programmer, or just simply someone who knows C++. Not even that - my modules do not use any library in C++ that is required to connect to external servers. Libraries are the things at the top of the code, you can look up every single one of them. You can also dump it into whatever you want - VirusTotal.net, an AI like ChatGPT (also web based) - these things could disprove the spyware theory. You can also run it and check network connections - none will come from my AV.

My final plea - please do not do the work for big corpo like Microsoft. This project is open-source and free, anyone can compile it themselves and even remake it into whatever they want... Do not accuse me of spyware/botnet-like behavior before reading through the source code.

It is just sad that a small CPP project in my free time got me accused of data theft...

Oh, Ok Marcin

You have put my mind completely at ease. As I don’t use an Anti-virus. Didn’t download and didn’t install.

I Just found it unusual you joined this site the day after starting the anti-virus project. Especially considering folks will not be suspicious about an “anti-virus” program trawling every single file on their computer and automatically logging on to sites.

But you can obviously be trusted, as a number of people on the site obviously do. You have a high trust rating on this site given to you by certain members.

I am really grateful for the heads up on MalwareBazaar and the links. Never knew about them.

You will have to forgive me, as I am a little old lady who hasn’t had much life experience and is naturally suspicious of people.

For instance, a few months ago this disgusting predator, who lied and lied and lied. Especially to the two elderly people he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars off. After he got out of prison he continued to trawl forums looking for potential victims. He joined this site using the same old spiel and pictures. So, I warned a close friend from the site not to give any help to him.

https://www.xpforums.com/threads/wi...-on-top-need-help-please.935279/#post-3273657

I am now very regretful that I didn’t just post the newspaper articles and records, but handled it diplomatically.

Here he is when he is not trying to scam people on this site.

https://www.nj.com/essex/2019/09/br...th-phony-investments-sentenced-to-prison.html

It’s hard for me you see, I am from a completely different culture, where respect for the elderly is the most important thing, dueling is legal, meaning people tend to be nicer. I am sometimes at a total loss, as to the customs of Europeans and Americans. For instance someone from this site congratulated me on looking after my husband who has cancer. I am really at a loss how to take it.

Anyway I am due for this mornings report from the cats on what the neighbors have been up to.

All the best

Madu

 

[Mr Siamese Cat]

First of all, calm down. My intention is not to steal any data. I believe in privacy and that is why I use Ubuntu instead of Windows 11. Second of all, there are free malware samples, hashes and fuzzy hashes available:

• MalwareBazaar (abuse.ch) main site:
  https://bazaar.abuse.ch
• Browse malware samples on MalwareBazaar:
  https://bazaar.abuse.ch/browse/
• MalwareBazaar API documentation (for automated queries):
  https://bazaar.abuse.ch/api/
• Export malware hash lists from MalwareBazaar:
  https://bazaar.abuse.ch/export/
• MalwareBazaar GitHub repository (tools and scripts):
  https://github.com/abusech/MalwareBazaar

About keeping up-to-date:

• Hourly and daily malware sample feeds:
  Hourly: https://datalake.abuse.ch/malware-bazaar/hourly/
  Daily: https://datalake.abuse.ch/malware-bazaar/daily/

Also, the connection_monitor.exe checked who was TRYING to connect to you. The log was sent nowhere nor did it have any control. The user had to manually accept blocking connections. Moreover, that was an abandoned part of the project. This is what you should be looking at:

SentinelXP/Sentinel_CPP_Archive at main · Martingonn/SentinelXP

An antivirus for Windows XP. Free, forever. Contribute to Martingonn/SentinelXP development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

I have no sponsorships, no company, no MaLiCiOuS eViL pLaN to control systems, no servers to keep my "stolen data" on. One day my Windows XP Virtual Machine got hacked and even tried to change router files. The only free antivirus that I had back then was Clamwin. No installs, it was a botnet infection. Some AV programs for XP are just plain bad, like Clamwin. Others probably send your data faster than you blink. Many people also use cracked AVs, which can themselves be malware. These are the three reaI reasons why I wanted to create this project - for XP users to have a free, legal and private alternative for an AV. I do agree, it will not be the best and I am glad you got scared about the weird .exe name. I like to name things literally and when a module does something to protect you from attacks, it will be named that. The module checked for suspicious port connections and, with user consent, blocked them. One of my newer modules is called filemon, because, guess what, it shows the user which files are being modified, doing NOTHING ELSE.

My new AV will be offline-based, focusing on preventing threats like RDP by closing RDP port rather than with active connection monitoring.

As for me joining, I joined to ask about a .dll error on my new XP. As you can see, I have posted a lot outside my tiny thread about the antivirus. Selling the information you just gave me, I wouldn't earn a dime, so what's the point of accusing? If I wanted your data and your system, I would have secretly coded a botnet.

I deleted the old .py files so that no one falls for the same mislead conclusion. If you want to see if the project is really spyware, check out the newest releases.

I would be really glad if you looked at the .cpp files with a C++98 programmer, or just simply someone who knows C++. Not even that - my modules do not use any library in C++ that is required to connect to external servers. Libraries are the things at the top of the code, you can look up every single one of them. You can also dump it into whatever you want - VirusTotal.net, an AI like ChatGPT (also web based) - these things could disprove the spyware theory. You can also run it and check network connections - none will come from my AV.

My final plea - please do not do the work for big corpo like Microsoft. This project is open-source and free, anyone can compile it themselves and even remake it into whatever they want... Do not accuse me of spyware/botnet-like behavior before reading through the source code.

It is just sad that a small CPP project in my free time got me accused of data theft...

“First of all, calm down”

But also

“Did you crack them yourself? If not, how are you sure they do not have malware? After all, bitshifting and other ways of hiding malware exist.”

Yeah right. We got it…........ Don’t trust anyone else, but trust me, I’m a stand-up guy.

 

[BellicoseBloke]

'Calm Down'... Yes, great & simple response... Personally being native american I think one should ponder much longer, smoke the peace pipe, take a nap, forget about the whole thing, remember it, ponder again... Perhaps by this time there's more input... THEN make a brief query... Seems like way too many reactions nowadays... For me one of the most useless activities is arguing with someone online who you will never meet & will be perhaps gone sooner or later... best to not even go back to such threads if one does suspect...

In SlingBlade Karl Childers figgered out the problem with the tiller right away by checking the simplest thing first, the GAS!

So I Would've asked Martingonn... "Does this project have GAS?!"..."Have you checked the GAS?!"

But reading Martingonn's response it looks like it has at least a half-tank...

 

[Mr Siamese Cat]

'Calm Down'... Yes, great & simple response... Personally being native american I think one should ponder much longer, smoke the peace pipe, take a nap, forget about the whole thing, remember it, ponder again... Perhaps by this time there's more input... THEN make a brief query... Seems like way too many reactions nowadays... For me one of the most useless activities is arguing with someone online who you will never meet & will be perhaps gone sooner or later... best to not even go back to such threads if one does suspect...

In SlingBlade Karl Childers figgered out the problem with the tiller right away by checking the simplest thing first, the GAS!

So I Would've asked Martingonn... "Does this project have GAS?!"..."Have you checked the GAS?!"

But reading Martingonn's response it looks like it has at least a half-tank...

Seems to bother you rather a lot though, doesn’t it? Wonder why??? Keep banging those likes in.

 

[Martingonn]

Oh, Ok Marcin

You have put my mind completely at ease. As I don’t use an Anti-virus. Didn’t download and didn’t install.

I Just found it unusual you joined this site the day after starting the anti-virus project. Especially considering folks will not be suspicious about an “anti-virus” program trawling every single file on their computer and automatically logging on to sites.

But you can obviously be trusted, as a number of people on the site obviously do. You have a high trust rating on this site given to you by certain members.

I am really grateful for the heads up on MalwareBazaar and the links. Never knew about them.

You will have to forgive me, as I am a little old lady who hasn’t had much life experience and is naturally suspicious of people.

For instance, a few months ago this disgusting predator, who lied and lied and lied. Especially to the two elderly people he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars off. After he got out of prison he continued to trawl forums looking for potential victims. He joined this site using the same old spiel and pictures. So, I warned a close friend from the site not to give any help to him.

https://www.xpforums.com/threads/wi...-on-top-need-help-please.935279/#post-3273657

I am now very regretful that I didn’t just post the newspaper articles and records, but handled it diplomatically.

Here he is when he is not trying to scam people on this site.

https://www.nj.com/essex/2019/09/br...th-phony-investments-sentenced-to-prison.html

It’s hard for me you see, I am from a completely different culture, where respect for the elderly is the most important thing, dueling is legal, meaning people tend to be nicer. I am sometimes at a total loss, as to the customs of Europeans and Americans. For instance someone from this site congratulated me on looking after my husband who has cancer. I am really at a loss how to take it.

Anyway I am due for this mornings report from the cats on what the neighbors have been up to.

All the best

Madu

Don't worry, you weren't too harsh or mean. I am glad someone had such fears. Thanks to you I began re-thinking my approach and the software might be more of a system diagnostic program that also detects malware. Once I finish that, I will add some live protection, but that will not interfere too much. If you try to connect to a malicious site, the program will still allow you to go through anyway with one click. Will see how it goes.

In today's age where Windows 11 screenshots your screen every few seconds and nobody questions it, I am glad that someone questioned a small antivirus project. I do agree, some of the AVs are really invasive. There is no reason to have AV on Ubuntu so I also have none.

I understand your concern even more once I read about the scammer. Don't worry, nothing malicious will happen with the RAM info or your PC, I only want to know the RAM because after some reading on this forum, most people complain about AVs being CPU-hogs.

 

[Madeleine Takam]

Don't worry, you weren't too harsh or mean. I am glad someone had such fears. Thanks to you I began re-thinking my approach and the software might be more of a system diagnostic program that also detects malware. Once I finish that, I will add some live protection, but that will not interfere too much. If you try to connect to a malicious site, the program will still allow you to go through anyway with one click. Will see how it goes.

In today's age where Windows 11 screenshots your screen every few seconds and nobody questions it, I am glad that someone questioned a small antivirus project. I do agree, some of the AVs are really invasive. There is no reason to have AV on Ubuntu so I also have none.

I understand your concern even more once I read about the scammer. Don't worry, nothing malicious will happen with the RAM info or your PC, I only want to know the RAM because after some reading on this forum, most people complain about AVs being CPU-hogs.

Thank you, Marcin,

I fully support anyone who is willing to take the time and effort to develop software.

As you are developing highly sensitive software and not just a simple executable then transparency, contact details and maybe a Patreon set up. The reason for the Patreon is that it pinpoints people financially, so they are far less likely to be rogues. And there are a lot of rogues about. Unfortunately one has to be proactive these days proving one isn’t.

I support this chap through Patreon at just £1 per month, because he maintains software specifically for 32bit and XP.

https://yd.3dyd.com/

I don’t need an anti-virus, but there seems a lot of interest in it. It is something that will need maintaining.

All the best

Madu

 

[Martingonn]

“First of all, calm down”

But also

“Did you crack them yourself? If not, how are you sure they do not have malware? After all, bitshifting and other ways of hiding malware exist.”

Yeah right. We got it…........ Don’t trust anyone else, but trust me, I’m a stand-up guy.

That's pretty unkind to make fun of someone. I did not mean "calm down" in a mean way. Sometimes people get angry and have their judgement clouded by their emotion.

In my culture there is a lot to say about not trusting russians, who are the main culprits of most cracks, that is why I can be, even subconsciously, suspect malware in russian-cracked programs. Besides, these people hide behind different things like Tor, because what they do is illegal. That means that they can also hide from you if they gave you malware.

Windows XP was an OS which already made sense for malware coders, as it could be easily part of a botnet and makes up over 50% of botnet traffic. The easiest way to infect someone is to have them run a program which then escalates privileges for itself and does anything it wants. I have never downloaded anything cracked, but my friends had some experience, especially on Windows. The classic "Then Command Prompt opened for a split-second" type of story.

I have researched about the darker parts of the internet like Tor, malware, hacking and cracking. Some crackers just want software to be free, others do it for fun, but the remaining half (around half, different sources say different things) packs it with malware.

Additionally, if you fixed your computer yourself, you could know that no-one has stolen a screw or a part from it. If someone else did that, the blame could go to them. If you fix your car, all the things that go faulty in it will be the result of your mistakes, not of someone else not doing their job properly. If you crack it yourself (for personal use), you are less likely to be prosecuted and will have 100% certainty that no one put malware in there.

Finally, I asked out of curiosity. I just want to know whether legacy OS users trust other pirates or not. "Bit shifting" wasn't me trying to sound like a specialist. Just look up "LSB shifting stenography". For your convenience, definition attached below.

"LSB (Least Significant Bit) Shifting in Steganography is a data hiding technique that embeds secret information into the least significant bits of a digital file, typically an image, without noticeably altering the original content." You couldn't even see that without advanced tools.

I think that I misinterpreted the last part, but I believe in zero-trust when it comes to software. Never told anyone that they should trust me. Code for my AV is open-source and under APL 2.0, so if anything is suspicious for you then remove or modify it without any concerns about copyright.

 

[xperceniol]

On my Dell Optiplex 745 I have 3GB of Ram whilst on my Dell Dimension 3000 only have 2GB. Here is my RAM situation on the 745.

 

[Martingonn]

On my Dell Optiplex 745 I have 3GB of Ram whilst on my Dell Dimension 3000 only have 2GB. Here is my RAM situation on the 745.View attachment 1619
View attachment 1620
View attachment 1621

So 2 to 3 GB of RAM. Thanks, that is 1 GB more than on my VM, so you shouldn't have any performance issues.

 

[MisterEd]

Desktop #1
MBD: ASUS A7V400-MX
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2400+
RAM: 512MB (1x512MB) DDR-333
O/S: Windows XP Pro

Desktop #2
MBD: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2800+
Original
RAM: 1GB (2x512MB) DDR-333
O/S: Windows XP Pro
Current
RAM: 2GB (2x1GB) DDR-400
O/S: Windows XP Pro

Laptop #1:
MDL: HP Pavilion ZV5380US
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3400+
Original
RAM: 1GB (2x512MB) DDR-333
O/S: Windows XP Home
Current
RAM: 2GB (2x1GB) DDR-333
O/S: Windows XP Home

Laptop #2:
MDL: Toshiba Tecra M7-S7331
CPU: Intel Core Duo T2400
Original
RAM: 1GB (2x512MB) DDR2-533
O/S: Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
Current
RAM: 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2-667
O/S: Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

 

[Martingonn]

Desktop #1
MBD: ASUS A7V400-MX
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2400+
RAM: 512MB (1x512MB) DDR-333
O/S: Windows XP Pro

Desktop #2
MBD: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2800+
Original
RAM: 1GB (2x512MB) DDR-333
O/S: Windows XP Pro
Current
RAM: 2GB (2x1GB) DDR-400
O/S: Windows XP Pro

Laptop #1:
MDL: HP Pavilion ZV5380US
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3400+
Original
RAM: 1GB (2x512MB) DDR-333
O/S: Windows XP Home
Current
RAM: 2GB (2x1GB) DDR-333
O/S: Windows XP Home

Laptop #2:
MDL: Toshiba Tecra M7-S7331
CPU: Intel Core Duo T2400
Original
RAM: 1GB (2x512MB) DDR2-533
O/S: Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
Current
RAM: 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2-667
O/S: Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

Thank you really much!

 

[cleverscreenname]

Seems to bother you rather a lot though, doesn’t it? Wonder why??? Keep banging those likes in.

Yes, you are superior to all of us, because you do not Like.
Feel free to loosen up sometime! Liking is fun and simple, similar to cats...

 

[cleverscreenname]

I support this chap through Patreon at just £1 per month, because he maintains software specifically for 32bit and XP.

https://yd.3dyd.com/

Thanks. He has good musical taste, all though Nightwish is a little slow for my desires. This is a great alternative to jDownloader, which I've been complaining about its' overhead.

 

[BellicoseBloke]

Sticks & Stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me... You don't hear that one anymore>>>

 

[Mr Siamese Cat]

Thank you, Marcin,

I fully support anyone who is willing to take the time and effort to develop software.

As you are developing highly sensitive software and not just a simple executable then transparency, contact details and maybe a Patreon set up. The reason for the Patreon is that it pinpoints people financially, so they are far less likely to be rogues. And there are a lot of rogues about. Unfortunately one has to be proactive these days proving one isn’t.

I support this chap through Patreon at just £1 per month, because he maintains software specifically for 32bit and XP.

https://yd.3dyd.com/

I don’t need an anti-virus, but there seems a lot of interest in it. It is something that will need maintaining.

All the best

Madu

I think you waste your time on here Madeleine. You will never receive thanks, for the help you contribute. Wrong photo/avatar my Dear.

Any genuine person who visits the site and wants help. Will, be swamped with drivel from buffoons, that have never even used XP and have virtually no understanding of Hardware, drivers and how they relate to XP systems.

Then there is the standard tin foil hat brigade, who repeat the same subjects over and over…..Microsoft evil, Windows 10 unsafe blah blah blah.

There really is only Elizabeth left giving good sound advice, by someone who has actually used XP. She only visits rarely.

I have met 3 good friends from the site I have actually met up with, you being one. But the site has changed.

I am glad in retrospect, that no one got back to me, when I offered to fund the site.

I would say I’m off now. However, there is no way I can find of deleting one’s account, since the website change.

 

[Martingonn]

I think you waste your time on here Madeleine. You will never receive thanks, for the help you contribute. Wrong photo/avatar my Dear.

Any genuine person who visits the site and wants help. Will, be swamped with drivel from buffoons, that have never even used XP and have virtually no understanding of Hardware, drivers and how they relate to XP systems.

Then there is the standard tin foil hat brigade, who repeat the same subjects over and over…..Microsoft evil, Windows 10 unsafe blah blah blah.

There really is only Elizabeth left giving good sound advice, by someone who has actually used XP. She only visits rarely.

I have met 3 good friends from the site I have actually met up with, you being one. But the site has changed.

I am glad in retrospect, that no one got back to me, when I offered to fund the site.

I would say I’m off now. However, there is no way I can find of deleting one’s account, since the website change.

"standard tin foil hat brigade" manages to help new people though, especially with software-related queries.

Tin Foil Hat Brigadier No. 1/The People's Enemy No. 1 thinks you forgot about Mister Ed, whose mantra is "XP unsafe, use 11". As cornemuse said - "If you're not angry, you're not listening". The more you learn about big corpo, the more you hate them.

I have used and keep using XP... dualboot with Windows 7 on laptop via chainload with GRUB. Could not be any help to users of hardware older than that. So I might have been degraded in the Tin Foil Hat Brigade.

Tin Foil Hat Brigadier No. 1 out - Microsoft will spy on you...

 

[cleverscreenname]

Any genuine person who visits the site and wants help. Will, be swamped with drivel from buffoons, that have never even used XP and have virtually no understanding of Hardware, drivers and how they relate to XP systems.

You are a lot of things. But you are not smarter or more knowledgeable on XP than this "buffoon". Go ahead: test my knowledge and put it up against yours. You'll learn a lot.

I'm soooo sorry I broke your private little sandbox playground with your only 3 friends left on a website dying with almost no traffic hits. Soooo sorry that young fresh enthusiastic faces found a home to share their passions and made this site visible again while you holler Get Off My Lawn from your porch chair.

You know what you could do instead of whining about the good ol' silent days? Click on my profile, and all the other new users, and click IGNORE. And every new user can click ignore on you as well, then you can just enjoy your little sandbox again and pretend humans under 60 years old don't exist.

I am glad in retrospect, that no one got back to me, when I offered to fund the site.

Thank GOD. Could you imagine you running this sandbox site?
I too, offered to fund this site, and I'll make sure users have the option to delete their accounts.....

P.S. You wanna know how to delete your account? Like 94 posts within an hour, like how you said I took down the website when you first met me, so all of everyone's knowledge and discussions can die, to protect question-askers from receiving the "drivel" answers they seek.