Cannot renew, update AV 18.8 OR connect SecureLine VPN

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Meant to post this sooner, but from what I’ve read on-site and heard from support, Avast Anti-Virus should still be able to run and update virus-definitions on WinXP (with the last compatible version 18.8.2356).
And from what I saw on some avast-articles, SecureLine VPN should still be able to run on WinXP (I’ve got v5.0.407).
But I can’t renew SecureLine VPN, log in and use my existing license or even update/renew Avast Free Antivirus.
It results in various ‘unknown’ errors such as the following;

Forsøgte at logge på min avast-konto og skifte licenser, men ukendte fejl opstod! Fik billed-captchaer på WinXP i 2024! 7X
Forsøgte at logge på min avast-konto og skifte licenser, men ukendte fejl opstod! Fik billed-captchaer på WinXP i 2024! 7X1517×1079 67.3 KB

And from the main AV window (that says ‘your free license has expired’), when trying to click ‘solve’ and choose Avast Free Antivirus instead of Premium, it then opens a ‘one time offer’-window - that can’t be closed, and so I can’t proceed to update the application.
Also, I can’t update virus definitions either.
Also tried transfering my current license for SecureLine VPN to that PC. It wouldn’t let me, though I could ‘log in’ at last. Was wondering since it acts a bit like it’s possible.

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Another example:

Ups! SecureLine VPN er stødt på et teknisk problem (skærmbid til avastforum)
Ups! SecureLine VPN er stødt på et teknisk problem (skærmbid til avastforum)1008×672 49.1 KB

(The VPN button cannot be turned on)

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Another unknown error, last one:

Angiver aktiveringskode i Avast SecureLine VPN for at forsøge at bruge den samme licens som jeg jo har på bærbar! Endnu en fejl! 'Der gik noget galt' 3X
Angiver aktiveringskode i Avast SecureLine VPN for at forsøge at bruge den samme licens som jeg jo har på bærbar! Endnu en fejl! 'Der gik noget galt' 3X1111×878 38.8 KB

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First, I’m an Avast user and not an Avast Team member.

Avast stopped support for XP some considerable time ago, however some were able to get VPS virus definitions subsequent to that.

However, there is no guarantee that in the future they would work. I have see some recent posts in the forum that some are unable to do that.

I’m not sure how SecureLine VPN would work with Avast 18.8 as I believe the VPN product came out after Avast stopped supporting program updates for Avast on XP.

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Hello and thanks for the reply.
Yes, they stopped supporting it after v18. That version (or its standard features) was said to still work though. Which it did, but Avast AV prompted me to ‘renew’ the ‘license’ despite it being the Free version. (And then definitions couldn’t update either.)

Sounds like they tried some kind of ‘hack’ to make that work.

SecureLine did work on XP, it worked alongside the Anti-Virus here and existed years before it stopped working.

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At that time when they ceased program updates for Avast on XP systems, they said VPS updates would continue. But later that too was withdrawn from support. Newer virus pattern signatures may not work on XP and as I mentioned people are reporting issues with that now.

I honestly don’t believe will change that decision to support the numbers of XP users.

Even Avast Free (which I have been using for just over 20 years) had an Annual renewal (at no cost) and that would be why, when people would try that they would get an error message relating to XP not being supported.

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