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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: NVF on March 29, 2016, 10:47:29 PM

Title: Chrome, Security, Avast! and Vista
Post by: NVF on March 29, 2016, 10:47:29 PM

So Chrome will no longer support Vista machines as of April I think. Will using an old browser version present security problems and if so can Avast! prevent some of those threats?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Chrome, Security, Avast! and Vista
Post by: Eddy on March 29, 2016, 10:50:50 PM

avast will keep protecting you as it is doing now.
If new threads are found avast will keep adding detection/protection for/from them.

Title: Re: Chrome, Security, Avast! and Vista
Post by: polonus on March 29, 2016, 11:10:31 PM

You could also switch to Sleipnir browser, all settings and extension of Chrome will run there.
Also available as Mobile App -    Sleipnir Mobile - Web Browser

polonus

Title: Re: Chrome, Security, Avast! and Vista
Post by: NVF on March 30, 2016, 06:42:48 AM

Quote from: Eddy on March 29, 2016, 10:50:50 PM

avast will keep protecting you as it is doing now.
If new threads are found avast will keep adding detection/protection for/from them.

So there's nothing Chrome does to prevent security problems that isn't covered by Avast!?

Thanks, polonus. Going to check that out now.

Title: Re: Chrome, Security, Avast! and Vista
Post by: Dwarden on March 30, 2016, 07:56:20 AM

you can still use Iron Browser or Opera Browser afaik they still work on Vista/XP ...

Title: Re: Chrome, Security, Avast! and Vista
Post by: Eddy on March 30, 2016, 11:21:59 AM

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So there's nothing Chrome does to prevent security problems that isn't covered by Avast!?

avast doesn't release/create patches for security holes in applications.
That is up to the developer of the applications, which in this case is Google.

About Opera:
If your system supports SSE2 all versions will work.
If the system doesn't support SSE2 Opera 12.18 is the latest that will work (released febr. this year)

Title: Re: Chrome, Security, Avast! and Vista
Post by: NVF on March 30, 2016, 02:46:02 PM

I hate how Opera does its bookmarks and pages just seem to scroll weirdly with Firefox. But if I understand you correctly a security hole in an older version of Chrome could be taken advantage of that Avast! wouldn't catch?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Chrome, Security, Avast! and Vista
Post by: Tangy on April 02, 2016, 12:54:34 AM

 I switched to Comodo dragon, you see my wife uses my computer occasionally that is why I had chrome installed  she is used to it from my other computer that rans on win7 and w I hardly use. The thing is that she likes xp too so whenever gets the chance there she goes :) I thought that comodo would make her feel at home. Now my question is should I uninstall Chrome ? I do not really have any problems with space. I only use 25 GB out of 500 GB. Am I going to be nagged by Avast to install Chrome if I do so?

Thanks