Opera updates in Vista/XP?
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lando242 last edited by
Asking if running Opera 36 on Vista is safe is like asking if the seatbelts in your car made of Papier-mâché is safe. If you get hit by something it wont matter. Vista has been superseded not once, not twice, but three times. Its a ten year old operating system. Thats ancient in the computer world. It stopped getting priority testing and updates years ago. Whether Opera is completely up to date or not is not your most pressing concern. If updates were a major concern you should have upgraded your OS a few years ago.
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
Any updates that would require major changes to Chromium will not be made by Opera. If Chrome is supporting Vista (and XP) then Opera will, but Opera simply can't backport major changes from the current version to 36. Anything that can be done with a simple patch, sure, and changes to Opera's proprietary code, but anything more is not something they could do.
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A Former User last edited by
At least Vista is still getting official security patches from Microsoft, and will for around another year IIRC.
XP is only being patched for those who are spoofing that it's POSReady 2009, and those updates should last until 2019!
It will be interesting to see just how up to date with security patches Opera can keep Opera 36 going forward.
As you say, any patches that involve major changes in the Chromium engine will not be possible I suspect.
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A Former User last edited by
Off topic, but that's very interesting!
Can you say which program that is?
I've never heard about that anywhere else.
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
I'd have to look - I don't use that machine much. Either AVG, Avast or Avira, I have different free antivirus on each machine but forget which has which. When I do get on that machine I see it download Windows updates, so I know it (the antivirus) does. One of those "they all should" (but probably don't) things - how can they claim your machine is secure if they aren't installing updates to it?
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A Former User last edited by
Should we start a lounge topic on "Live Long Windows XP" or something like that? Seems pretty interesting.
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A Former User last edited by
I'd have to look - I don't use that machine much. Either AVG, Avast or Avira, I have different free antivirus on each machine but forget which has which. When I do get on that machine I see it download Windows updates, so I know it (the antivirus) does. One of those "they all should" (but probably don't) things - how can they claim your machine is secure if they aren't installing updates to it?
Ah, but is it actually installing Microsoft Windows updates to the machine, or is it just its own updates, virus patterns etc.?
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A Former User last edited by
Well that sounds pretty conclusive!
However, I have looked at the websites of AVG, Avast and Avira, and found no mention of their software doing this.
I would really like to know which of them is doing it!
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
Finally unburied that machine (it's a netbook - slow processor, only 1 GB RAM - so I don't use it much) and it has Avast. When the antivirus program (not the definitions file, the program) updates itself it also installs the Windows updates. Of course, that means it's updating the program roughly once a month ...
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A Former User last edited by
Interesting, thanks for that.
I will have to investigate further, but I could find no mention of this facility on Avast's site.
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
No idea if it is giving me all updates or only the ones they think are needed, but if you watch it update (as I did yesterday and have done before) you'll see it say "Executing kb_######.i86.exe /silent" during the later part of the update. (where ###### is some 6-digit number, I think the one I saw yesterday was 970152 but didn't write it down.)
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wm4bama last edited by
Has anyone received an update for Vista systems after installing
Version: 36.0.2130.75 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Windows Vista 32-bit?I use the menu option "About Opera" daily and always get the above results...
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opermo last edited by
Still 36.0.2130.75.
Does anyone know if there'll be an security update anytime this month? -
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opermo last edited by
So from a security standpoint, am I any better off using Opera than Chrome (which dropped Vista totally)?
