And I thought you should know, as you designed the program. On 8/6/15, Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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