If you are running Windows7 and above, Microsoft Security Essentials and its equivalent under Windows 8 (Windows Defender) are perfectly fine as an antivirus solution. In fact, Avast and AVG cause so many headaches because they are just too intrusive. I've yet to meet an individual using Avast or AVG who hasn't sepnt hours if not days trying to get those to run well. Think back and try to recall the very few hassles experienced by MSE users in comparison to those constantly struggling with AVG or Avast.
In short, I will say that those who have the most headaches with antivirus solutions are those who have installed Avast and AVG. If you are a knowledgeable and cautious computer and internet user, you don't need such aggressive antivirus solutions. In fact, most power users say that the less ntrusion from antivirus utilities and alike, the better, which is why guys like Leo Laporte ofend suggest to callers on his computer show that installing MSE is just fine even though Nod32 is one of his sponsors. If you want a bit more security to make you feel better, run Malwarebytes in real time alongside MSE, and this will be plenty of security--unless you're often downloading and installing software from torrents and such. There are literally hundreds of millions of people out there using the free MSE, and you've not read or heard about millions of people becoming infected as a result of MSE. Remember, MSE comes directly from Microsoft, so they would know what works best with their own software such as Skype, Microsoft Office, etc. MSE is also 100% completely accessible. JR -----Original Message----- From: Skypeenglish [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike DeZinno via Skypeenglish Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 8:04 AM To: screen readers' access to skype and its interface. Subject: [Skypeenglish] another place to consider for Skype problems Good morning Skypites: I'm just putting this out there as a possible explanation for some of the random nature of the Skype issues I have been reading about in recent weeks. I see some of you having certain issues and others challenging them responding back that others aren't having those issues so the answer is not what someone else just shared here in the forum. Here is what I just learned yesterday which has me wondering if we might not be looking in the wrong place for answers. I'm a JAWS user currently working with JAWS 16. About two months ago I had many of the problems we have seen discussed here in the group and many of you were kind enough to offer help and I was able to go backward to a prior version of Skype and JAWS scripts and since that time all has been well until recently. Over the last few weeks Jaws has been acting weird with Skype and a few other older applications that I have been using for years. The problems in nature are intermittent and because of that have been difficult to nail down for a definite cause. Yesterday a high level JAWS tech user told me that recent upgrades in some of the anti virus software could be the cause of some of our issues because of the way screen readers work it sees a screen reader as a potential possible threat. I'm currently using Avast and he did say that Avast is for sure on that list, so now I need your help again. What are you all using for virus protection that isn't messing up your screen reader and that's also blind friendly to use? Thanks for any and all help, Mike, from SC Thanks for posting to the skype english list. to contact skype support with any questions regarding your account email [email protected] To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To contact the list owner send a message to mailto:[email protected] and for a searchable archives page go here. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://lists.tffppodcast.com/listinfo.cgi/skypeenglish-tffppodcast.com
