Try windows defender from microsoft. It replaces Microsoft Security Essentials and is free. Marilyn----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Ramage" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 3:10 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Jaws & Avast, incompatible?
: Hi Folks. A few years ago I had my PC reformatted and Avast was installed : as my anti-virus. This caused quite a number of problems with Jaws not : performing properly and my computer not functioning as it should. Avast was : removed and AVG was installed and things then worked fine. I subsequently : bought a new computer and as AVG wasn't as good as it once was; it became : increasingly less accessible I thought with newer versions of Jaws that : perhaps Avast would be fine now. Well this has not proved to be the case of : late. With Jaws 14 and Jaws 15 every now and then I would lose speech and : could not re-launch it, at times I had to restart the PC. This would happen : at random times without a pattern and it became irritating. When my speech : failed I couldn't even launch NVDA to inquire of what might be the problem. : This would happen when backing out of folders or when going back to a : previous web page. I used to use the backspace for this command but this : problem occurred much too often. I then started to use the alt/left arrow : to back out of folders and move backwards on web pages and that helped to a : limited degree as it happened less often, but it still happened too : frequently. Avast has now been uninstalled and my PC is working like a : dream, so fast reacting and I can work at speed with confidence that the : computer and Jaws will keep up and not have a seizure. I have come to the : conclusion that Avast and Jaws are not really on good terms. I can't speak : for other screen readers but I know there is a problem with Jaws and Avast. : At this moment I have no anti-virus but I'm going to install Spybot as they : now also have an anti-virus version but you must pay for that. Has anyone : else had a similar problem with Avast? Walter. : : : For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: : http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
