Legacy Update
How safe is Windows Update Restored? #309
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Hello I have a question I saw that legacy update does not work for Windows 98 and they have a sister project called Windows Update Restored (https://www.windowsupdaterestored.com/) and when I go to the website I get a pop-up from Malwarebytes Web Extension that the Website is not safe and I check that Statistics should I trust this or no? |
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Almost definitely this should be a false positive. Both Legacy Update and Windows Update Restored run into this sometimes, mostly because they’re doing things that are unconventional these days, such as using ActiveX controls and updating system files. Some more info on that here. You can always check against VirusTotal to see what the consensus is, at the moment 5 of 96 vendors flag it. They’re very generic detections like "phishing", "malicious", "not recommended". These are mostly ones I've had to contact to whitelist Legacy Update in the past. I'll get that done for WUR too. Their engineers should be able to manually confirm it’s safe. |
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Ok Thank you so much! |
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Hi there! |
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Ok Thank you so much for telling me I might start using it Today, Tomorrow Morning, or evening! |
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All I wanted to make sure because last time when I try to use while I’m traveling the ISP blocked me from downloading it |
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Almost definitely this should be a false positive. Both Legacy Update and Windows Update Restored run into this sometimes, mostly because they’re doing things that are unconventional these days, such as using ActiveX controls and updating system files. Some more info on that here.
You can always check against VirusTotal to see what the consensus is, at the moment 5 of 96 vendors flag it. They’re very generic detections like "phishing", "malicious", "not recommended". These are mostly ones I've had to contact to whitelist Legacy Update in the past. I'll get that done for WUR too. Their engineers should be able to manually confirm it’s safe.