Wow. I can talk to my uncle, I was hoping you had a solution. I couldn't find the way, so it may be a non-Jaws compatible feature.
On 8/6/15, valiant8086 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > those antimalware applications are ridiculously overbearing. They all > started reporting speakDropbox to my web host as malicious a few months > ago, my host contacted me and asked me to resolve it. I double checked > that the site hadn't been hacked and the files replaced or anything like > that. The speakDropbox installers were the same size and behaved exactly > the same as when I compiled them when I redownloaded from the site and > installed them for testing purposes. So I informed my host that there > was nothing wrong. A week later my host contacted me again and said they > took my site down temporarily because they were getting large numbers of > reports of malicious content on my site, that I needed to resolve the > issue and contact them to have the site turned on again. > > Programmers have the option to use something called UPX compression in > their program's executables which essentially is a way to compress the > executable file into a slightly smaller one and make it marginally more > difficult to decompile and hack the application. I had UPX disabled for > SpeakDropbox versions 12 and earlier because the advice online is to > keep it off so Antimalware applications can easily read the contents of > the executable and determine that it does or does not have malicious > content. UPX compression prevents a lot of Antimalware applications from > actually analyzing the program because they're just not really capable > of it. So the word on the street is that a lot of them start blocking > programs that were UPX compressed on general principle or at least if it > looks suspiciously like another UPX compressed program that turned out > to be malicious in the past. > > Anyway, back to speakDropbox, I had UPX turned off because I wanted > these applications to scan it and see that it wasn't doing anything > nasty. When I got my site taken down for goodness sake, I turned UPX on > and wouldn't you know that took the number of antimalware companies > reporting it from 22 down to 2, one of which was Avast, see the > SpeakDropbox download site for my original complaint on that. These guys > are perfectly happy to just roll all over me and it's of course always > my fault when they have a false positive. > > Now regarding your own issue, there must be a way to tell Avast to > simmer down and let SpeakDropbox do its thing. > > On another unrelated note, AVG is being a real knothead with the > Guidedog Client, the software application that is part of the service > our company's audiogames use for registration and online communication. > It prevents the games from downloading it, but if you temporarily > disable AVG long enough to do that, when AVG automatically turns on > again, it sees the new files and deletes them, all without telling the > user in any way what the heck is going on. It has no alert what so ever > of its activity, so I get emails from people who just bought one of our > games going it doesn't work, can you help me? I recently spent a few > hours with jaws tandem on one of my friend's who bought one of the > game's computers and eventually proved to him that it was AVG, he didn't > ask for a refund, he's supposed to be getting his sighted buddy to try > and figure out how to add some sort of exception to AVG so he can run my > game, ick! > > So far, the safest Antimalware application seems to be Windows Defender > for windows 8.1 and windows 10 people or Microsoft Security Essentials > for everyone else. The buddy who has AVG was using it for a while, and > got a virus while running it though, so he doesn't trust that anymore. > The last virus I had, I got because I had Windows Defender turned off on > two of my computers. It just so happened it was in a bt sync folder, and > when I turned my tablet on, the one computer I had at the time which had > windows defender enabled started complaining about these bad files > showing up in that bt sync folder and generally making all kinds of > racket. There were 6 people in that folder and I was the one that > noticed the bad files, on a 375 dollar windows 8.1 tablet, of all > things. I re-enabled it on the two computers that had it turned off, and > let it do full system scans and generally cleaned house. To the best of > my knowledge it saved the day even though I was a retard and forgot to > turn it back on at some point prior to that and left myself vulnerable. > > Anyhow this isn't completely jaws related, I'd better stop while I have > at least some chance of being ahead, lol. > > Cheers, Aaron Spears, general Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates > Developing "very good audiogames" for the blind community > http://valiantGalaxy.com Sent with Thunderbird 31.6.0 portable > On 8/6/2015 1:00 AM, Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews wrote: >> Avast is blocking Version 15 to update on my latop. The desktop updated >> fine. >> >> On 8/6/15, valiant8086 <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi. >>> About 10 minutes ago I released SpeakDropbox 15 which is an attempt to >>> solve problems it had finding the SpeakDropbox and the Dropbox icons >>> while running in windows 10. >>> >>> Hope it works for everyone else, I only have my tablet to verify it >>> against. >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers, Aaron Spears, general Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates >>> Developing "very good audiogames" for the blind community >>> http://valiantGalaxy.com Sent with Thunderbird 31.6.0 portable >>> >>> 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/ > -- Pen Name: Mellissa Green Twitter @abluegreenunivs website www.abluegreenuniverse.com For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
