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> On 27 Feb 2015, at 1:50 am, Maria Campbell via Jfw <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Remind me not to mess around with Avast. Smile. > > > Sunny Day > Maria Campbell > [email protected] > > 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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Jfw mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
