I thought windows defender was for antipspy only! Sent from my iPhone
On 2013-12-03, at 5:01 PM, "Angelina Stabile" <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh what should I use? > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Walter Ramage > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 4:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws & Avast, incompatible? > > Unfortunately Essentials has developed a bad reputation as Microsoft seem to > be letting it wither on the vine. It might be fine for an emergency > fal-back but I wouldn't use it as my main protection. Walter. > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Angelina Stabile > Sent: 03 December 2013 21:30 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws & Avast, incompatible? > > Use Microsoft security essentials. Its free and works with jaws well. > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Walter Ramage > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 4:11 PM > To: [email protected] > 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/ > > > 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
