Or...
Buy a proper "Genuine" FTDI based cable. No more problems after that.
If your supplier/seller cannot guarantee a genuine FTDI based product, look elsewhere. (Or build the cable assembly yourself.)
If you use out of date hardware and drivers, & then have to stop Windows from updating, you are leaving yourself wide open to all sorts of other possible problems.
If your PC then gets hit with something nasty, then others on the same network might be liable to getting bad stuff too. Just how much domestic trouble can you survive?
You buy cheap, you often get poor quality. End of.
(Why do some Ham's pay top$£€ etc for some rig's, then penny pinch on accessories?)
73.
Dave G8KBV
Who followed the instructions on the website, and now have the new version of Chirp happily running on a fresh install of LMDE* just fine. Many thanks to whoever put those instructions together. VERY much appreciated.
(* Linux Mint Debian Edition.)