[Trainer-talk] Malwarebytes/take two

[David Goldfield]

OK, I gave Malwarebytes a second try and I have to admit I'm warming up 
to it, as it is behaving a bit more consistently than it did during my 
last attempts.  This may be due to which account I'm running it from.  
Last night, I ran it from my administrator account and not from my 
regular account, the latter only giving me standard user privileges.  On 
my computer, my regular account, which I use for daily tasks such as 
email and web surfing, only provides me with standard access, whereas my 
admin account, which I use for installing, uninstalling and performing 
system maintenance provides full administrator access.  This was a 
change I made recently to improve security and is really something I 
should have done last December when I first acquired this computer.  
It's generally good practice to slightly lock down the access granted by 
your main user account and having an administrator account for system 
maintenance.
anyway, I ran Malwarebytes from my administrative account and the 
program is, as I said, behaving a bit better.  It still says "border" a 
few times after tabbing to each button with NVDA, an annoyance I did not 
notice with JAWS.  with my admin account, I was able to press the enter 
key on the "settings" button and, after a few presses of the tab key, 
could actually access settings.  The actual scan was surprisingly quick, 
faster than what I remember with version 1.75.  While the results of the 
scan did not appear to be accessible from within the program, at least 
with NVDA, they had a rather nifty option which allows you to copy the 
results to your clipboard.  I did this and could then open up Jarte, a 
program I use for casual word processing, and could then paste the 
results into the program's editor to freely read.  While this is an 
extra few steps, it does give us an easy way to read the scan log to 
determine whether any malware was detected.
there is still a lot about the program which I need to learn and I will 
suggest some changes to the developers, once I get a handle on exactly 
what tweeks need to be made.  However, it was nice to be able to use a 
current version of MB with at least a more than reasonable amount of 
accessibility ... and the program didn't lock up as it did during my 
first attempt to use it.  If anyone is having some issues running 
Malwarebytes, try running it as an administrator and see if your 
experience improves.

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      David Goldfield,
Assistive Technology specialist
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