From: CRNG
Take a look at https://www.malwarebytes.com/premium/ I think they may
still support Wxp.
On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 11:38:16 -0000, "Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°¹9 + on desktop"
wrote in
>Until earlier in the year I have successfully been running an old
>computer with Windows XP Home Edition and a AMD processor (x86 Family 6
>Model 8 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD~1833 MHz), whatever all that means. I
>have been running Avast Premium Internet Security for several years. To
>all intents and purposes it seems to be running well but I noticed a
>couple of days ago that the firewall was switched off and despite my
>efforts it just refused to be switched on, giving a curt error message
>"Firewall cannot be switched on. During by unsuccessful efforts I also
>spotted that, although the latest virus definitions update was dated as
>02/02/2019 it refused to update but told me that I still had the current
>update. I tried to install the current Avast free as a back up until
>the problem was sorted out and but as I tried to run it I immediately
>got the error message: "We are sorry but Avast Antivirus cannot run
>on your computer because your processor does not support SSE2
>instruction set." So I presumed that this was probably the reason that
>my Premium installation had stopped working. :(
> All I can think of is to use Clamwin which does in fact run and
>updates it's virus definitions daily, but this doesn't offer as much
>protection as the Avast or AVG offer.
> Has anyone in this Newsgroup any ideas as to how I can improve my
>security. Please don't suggest chucking the archaic computer in the
>skip! Thanks. :)
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