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> On 27 Feb 2015, at 1:50 am, Maria Campbell via Jfw <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
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> 
> Remind me not to mess around with Avast.  Smile.
> 
> 
> Sunny Day
> Maria Campbell
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> Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
> Blaise Pascal
> 
>> On 2/26/2015 7:42 PM, Brad Martin via Jfw wrote:
>> I had this happen with Avast on three different computers, but only one time 
>> on each machine. I booted up, and Avast promptly deleted the jfw.exe file. 
>> It happened on all three computers around the same time, so I assumed an 
>> update to Avast definitions prevented the problem from recurring.  When JAWS 
>> quit working, I went into Safe Mode, did a system restore, and JAWS came 
>> back. I never had that problem again on the same machine.
>> 
>> Brad
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 2/26/2015 6:40 PM, Peter Donahue via Jfw wrote:
>>> Maria Campbell via Jfw wrote:
>>>> Well I sent a message to the other list, which has absolutely gone mum on 
>>>> the subject I put out there.
>>>> As many of us are on both list, I'm just wondering if anyone has any 
>>>> thoughts on the possibility that versions of JAWS can be adversely 
>>>> affected by virus protection that might think of aspects of JAWS as being 
>>>> malware.
>>>> I believe this has happened to me in the past, thus messing up some of my 
>>>> JAWS versions and possibly passing on any corruption caused by virus 
>>>> protection deleting any files considered suspect.
>>>> Yes, no, maybe so?
>>> Good evening Maria and everyone,
>>> All worked well for a week until we came home one evening. Avast said it 
>>> detected a threat. Later we discovered that it removed JAWS. Freedom 
>>> Scientific told me that this is a know issue with Avast. It can only be 
>>> remedied with assistance from Avast. It sounds like we need to urge 
>>> developers of antivirus and other computer protection pacakges to redesign 
>>> their products so they will not detect assistive software as threats. Avast 
>>> works well with JFW under Windows XP.
>>> 
>>> Peter Donahue
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    We recently had this happen on my wife's computer running Windows 7 and 
>>> Avast.
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