From: "Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°¹9 + on desktop" 

CRNG wrote:
> 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.  :)

Thank you CRNG I'll take a bucher's at it.


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