[nfbcs] Accessible Antivirus

[Nancy Coffman]

My sister uses a FixIt Stick.  It boots the computer from the stick so would
not run your screen reader.

NanoPac sells Vipre.  I use Webroot Secure Anywhere and the JAWS cursor
works with it.

Nancy Coffman

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From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell via
nfbcs
Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2017 12:37 AM
To: Ryan Mann via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Accessible Antivirus

If security is essential you will be using more than windows defender since
malware exists other packages catch that just runs right through windows
defender.  Short explanation for this is most malware in the wild isn't even
detected by any antivirus package and that has been the case for the last
couple years.  Any malware any of those packages find is a lucky break for
the package and the user.  spybot from ninite.com is at least accessible.
Another possibility may be fixmestick though I haven't checked its
accessibility out.  clamwin was a little difficult to use but not impossible
the last time I used windows.

On Sat, 5 Aug 2017, Ryan Mann via nfbcs wrote:

> Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 22:04:26
> From: Ryan Mann via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Ryan Mann <rmann0581 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Accessible Antivirus
> 
> If you use Windows 10, then there is Windows Defender.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Aug 5, 2017, at 9:20 PM, Nicole Torcolini via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
>>
>>            What is an accessible antivirus? I am currently using 
>> ESET, but they recently made their software even less accessible. I 
>> wrote to them to complain, and they told me to download the latest 
>> version , which they said is accessible with JAWS. It is no better 
>> than the version that I had before, which I wrote in an email just 
>> now-including the specific details-but I do not know if they are 
>> going to do anything about it, and, if they do, how long it will 
>> take. ESET has a bunch of CPU intensive features enabled by default, 
>> and I am tired of it eating my CPU, so, if they do not do something soon,
I am going to switch to another antivirus.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nicole
>>
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