One program that I've found to be very accessible when used with Window-Eyes that removes spyware is Counterspy available from www.sunbeltsoftware.com. Unlike some other commercial anti-spyware programs Counterspy will let you remove spyware before you buy the product. The same company also make VIPRE which detects and removes both viruses and spyware. Counterspy can only detect and remove spyware. VIPRE is also very accessible. Below is an item that recently appeared in the Counterspy newsletter written by a blind person who uses the product. Although JAWS is the screen reader mentioned the same thing applies to Window-Eyes. I hope this helps. -Steve.
Screen-Reader Accessible Hi, I recently contacted you regarding screen-reader support in CounterSpy and you were extremely helpful to me, providing me with more appropriate contact details. However, as I was probably only one of a few who have contacted you with regards to this, I did not seriously think that any action would be taken. However, the new version of CounterSpy, and Vipre, to which I have now upgraded, is completely accessible with my screen-reader. It really works as though it were designed especially for blind and visually impaired users. I have now been able to ditch the completely inaccessible Norton Internet Security 2008 and migrate to Vipre, Sunbelt Personal Firewall and iHateSpam and my system speed has increased dramatically. I would like to express my deepest appreciation to Sunbelt for making all its products completely accessible for users of screen-readers as the firewall and spam blocker are also usable. Any company which can respond to a customer request as quickly as you did clearly deserves unlimited respects and quite evidently holds its customers in high regard. I would appreciate if you could also pass my feed- back to the appropriate personnel so they know that they're efforts are most definitely appreciated. Finally, blind users can uninstall SpyBot Search & Destroy or Ad-aware Personal edition with script files, the latter of which is no longer support or updated. Visually impaired people still use these products; there are not even any script files for the new version of Ad- Aware to make it work with JAWS. I greatly appreciate your help and all efforts made by Sunbelt in this matter. -- Kind regards, Sam Wesley Regards Steve Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windows Live Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: steve1963 If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
