[NFBCS] Jaws is Not a Virus

[Kevin]

The question we must put forth is:

How do we talk someone into taking Jaws off off a blacklist?  We can of 
course make the case that any software package can be exploited and we 
would be correct.  I think the answer is to sit down with the company 
and let them sooth some souls.


On 12/16/2019 9:26 PM, Steve Jacobson via NFBCS wrote:
> Jim,
>
> I think I would start by asking your employer what they use to validate other software is not a virus.  If they have a corporate virus checker, that should find any viruses including anything that somehow came in due to JAWS.  You could ask Vispero for a statement of how they prevent viruses from coming in through their scripts.  I know that a number of the larger virus scanning companies have made changes to not cause JAWS and Window-Eyes when it was around to not be seen as viruses.  Your employer's reaction seems strange to me, though, because virtually any software they buy is proprietary.  I know some corporations have frowned upon the use of NVDA because it is considered an open source project, but even that is pretty widely accepted now.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Steve Jacobson
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [NFBCS] Jaws is Not a Virus
>
> Hello.
> Our employment specialist has run across a barrier which I thought had disappeared a long long time ago.
> A company is Leary about installing Jaws because they are afraid that the infrastructure and proprietary software on their systems will be compromised.
> I m in search of any scholarly or other kinds of documentation that will help to alleviate this kind of arbitrary nonsense, I have searched in vain so far, but any pointers in this direction would be incredibly helpful.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim Fettgather
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