[gui-talk] anti-virus software interferes with screenreader?

[Baracco, Andrew W]

At home I have an old Dell machine with 512 MB RAM.  When Norton
Internet Security is doing a full scan, the machine grinds to a halt,
and can be used for little else. At work  this machine has 1 GB RAM, and
when McAfee runs a full scan, the machine still slows down quite a bit,
and sometimes it seems that speech goes away, but it usually returns.
And this is screen reader independent.

Andy


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On Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] anti-virus software interferes with
screenreader?

Although it is certainly possible, it seems unlikely that NOD32 is
causing this since I have read on the Window-Eyes lists that they have
found it to work well with 
Window-Eyes.  However, when a full scan of your hard drive is in
process, this can slow the response for other applications, including
screen readers, a lot.  Also, if 
you don't have a lot of memory, like 500 megabytes, this can have an
effect as well.

There is currently a public beta of Window-Eyes 7.2, and it might be
worth downloading and trying that.  I believe some loss of speech issues
have been resolved in 
the public beta and it is stable.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:07:04 -0700, tunecollector wrote:

>Currently, I am dealing with WindowEyes 7.11 and 7.21 locking up and
going
>completely silent in all applications.  Is it possible that an
aggressive
>anti-virus program like Nod32 Version 4, which is constantly scanning
the
>computer, is interfering with W/E?
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