Yeah, Chris, I saw the same thing. I also read some reviews about Ad-Aware
10.5, but although it seems to catch things pretty well, the review did
mention a dangerous feature that will clean your toolbars. The problem is
it deletes them and could leave your browser nonfunctional on some sites; I
also don't like that it changes your homepage and search engine to Lavasoft.
Nice to see you back on the list, you've given a lot of valuable advice over
the years.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hill" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Goodbye MSE?
Actually, the pro version of malware-bytes looks to me like it claims to
be an antivirus as well. It does real-time protection, but I wouldn't
trust it without an antivirus along with it. Windows doesn't seem to
recognize it as an antivirus, and I'm not all that impressed with its
removal capabilities.
On 10/4/2013 14:44, Gerald Levy wrote:
The free version of Malware Bytes, which I use in conjunction with MSE
does not offer real-time virus protection. Indeed, Malware Bytes is an
anti-spyware program , not an anti-virus program.
Gerald
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Lee" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Goodbye MSE?
I would just keep mse and use malware bites, because the article
suggests mse doesn't pick up many infections.
malware bites can be downloaded from the jaws help page, many threads
were posted about malware bites on this board previously.
-----Original Message----- From: Gerald Levy
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 12:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Goodbye MSE?
Unfortunately, getting sighted help to use an anti-virus program is
not an
option for me and probably not for many other list members as well. So
unless someone can recommend an alternative to MSE that is still fully
JAWS
accessible and is removable without sighted help, I'll stick with it
because
some virus protection is better than none at all. And MSE is still
the most
JAWS friendly anti-virus program available.
Gerald
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Duck" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Goodbye MSE?
Hi,
Personally, I have given up on trying to find decent antivirus
software that
works well with JAWS. Currently, I use Norton and I just get sited
assistance, when I need it, which is very seldom.
Thanks,
Scott Duck
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]]
On
Behalf Of Gerald Levy
Sent: Friday, October 4, 2013 1:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Goodbye MSE?
Check out the following web page for an interesting article that
argues that
it may be time to give up on Microsoft Security Essentials and
sswitch to
another anti-virus program. But if what the article says is true and
MSE is
no longer effective, what other free JAWS-accessible anti-virus
programs are
still available? Forget about Avast, which requires sighted help to
uninstall, or AVG which some users claim is no longer JAWS friendly.
Are
there any other decent free anti-virus programs that work well with
JAWS?
http://www.howtogeek.com/173291/goodbye-microsoft-security-essentials-micros
oft-now-recommends-you-use-a-third-party-antivirus/
Gerald
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