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kgeist 14 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Is XYplorer really written in VB6?

>Yep, it’s written in VB6. Who cares?

I'd say security is a problem if one uses a 30 year old piece of software but apparently Microsoft still releases security updates: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=507...

>A security issue has been identified that could compromise your Windows-based system running Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Service Pack 6

>The Visual Basic 6.0 IDE is no longer supported as of April 8, 2008, however, the Visual Basic team is committed to “It Just Works” compatibility for Visual Basic 6.0 applications

>Date Published: >3/23/2021

KindOne 14 days ago [–]

It was released back in 2016 (or possibly before that?) https://web.archive.org/web/20160430055347/https://www.micro...

The installer was originally digitally signed with a sha1 certificate. The sha1 certificate with replaced with sha256 on 3/23/2021.

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