Hi Margaret, please take your time when looking at the programme. It's not like it's going to bite your head off is it? <lol> anyway, I'm sure you'll love the programme once you've explored it thoroughly. I also suggest reading the documentation that comes with the programme. I prefer that you do this with a clear head though. Hope this helps and get well soon. -- Chris Hallsworth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 1:18 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Scanning with Avast?
> Chris, > > From what you said, it sounds like all the items Avast was beeping at > me > were archives that couldn't be accessed. I was asked if I wanted to > delete, > rename, move to chest etc. I don't remember having clicked on the Action > button since I didn't know what it was. > > My head is still bad and it's not a good time to learn a new program, > so > I'll try to relax and go back to this later. By the way, while I was > typing > this, Avast announced it had detected malware. > > Thanks for the help. My problems are probably not caused by Avast, but > my own inability to think straight due to this head. Hopefully, > everything > will make sense when I'm feeling better and I may end up loving the > program. > > Margaret > > "Chris Hallsworth" wrote: > > > Hi, as I say by default Avast alerts you to what threats has been found. > This does not mean that it should be that way, however the only place as > far > as I know to turn those alerts off is in the dialogue itself, where you > check a check box to not show you alerts again. I'm not sure what the > default action for malware removal is once that check box is unchecked > since > I personally liked being warned when a threat has been found as at least I > get an opportunity to see what Avast has picked up. But to each his own I > guess. Second, you don't have to delete the archived files that couldn't > be > accessed. If you click the action button, you'll see things like > rename/move, move to chest, etc. Personally I've had little to no false > positives with Avast compared to AVG, which picked up trojans that even > Google's never heard of. Hope that helps. > -- > Chris Hallsworth > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Margaret Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:30 AM > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Scanning with Avast? > > >> Chris, >> >> I hadn't performed disk maintenance in way too long and decided to do >> a >> "twofer" that might also give Avast less things to check. I deleted a >> slew >> of old e-mail and some files and programs and did the disk maintenance. >> I >> had a rotten headache by this time and had to call my tech about a loop >> in >> Word 2000 that I couldn't get out of. He worked on that and I asked him >> to >> look at Avast and see what he could see in the chest and to get rid of it >> so >> I wouldn't have to spend another 8 hours for it to find the same stuff >> all >> over again. He said there were 18 items in the chest. I could swear >> that >> I'd put multiple times more than that in since Avast was literally >> sounding >> every 30 seconds or so and wanting me to take some action before it would >> proceed. I don't know if the fact that my clock was off meant we'd lost >> power. It had been windy and it was possible, but the clock is old and >> has >> been off a couple times in the last several days. If the UPS was >> beeping, >> I >> slept through it. >> >> About two minutes after I hung up with my tech, I got a mail delivery >> error message in OE. It cleared up on it's own after a couple of >> minutes, >> but then appeared again. I took my aching head to bed and the problem >> hadn't cleared up when I got back to the computer several hours later. >> It >> was an "unknown error" and mentioned Avast in the wording. I could get >> web >> pages to load, but couldn't send or receive mail. A Google search >> brought >> an inquiry from someone else who was asking about the same error message >> on >> his parents' machine, but the moderator had either blocked replies or >> there >> weren't any after 30 days, so I didn't get a fix. I tried the good old >> reboot and am getting mail again. >> >> I had the same Word problem before I rebooted, but my head still hurts >> and it's the least of my current problems. >> >> My tech is an AVG user, but he thought test archives shouldn't be >> checked and only hard drives should be. What does test archives do? >> What >> would happen if I permanently deleted what Avast found and it did turn >> out >> to be something real instead of a false positive? Most of all, do you >> really have to sit there the entire time and take some action every 30 >> seconds while Avast thinks it's found something? I've previously used >> both >> Norton Anti-Virus and AVG and with both of them you could do something >> else >> while they scanned the drive and could periodically check on the >> progress. >> >> Thanks, > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
