[gui-talk] Avast Home Edition - Was: Re: Is AVG Free Edition v. 7.5 being obsolesced by a free v. 8?

Mon Apr 28 16:05:17 CDT 2008

Hi, Joel

Glad i could be of help. The homepage for Avast Home is

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

and it is probalby the best you can get for the price of US$0.00. <g> 
I hear the program has gotten pretty usable for the blind by now and 
several of my blind friends use it - and not all of those are 
computer geeks. <g>

I am not sure of which commercial antivirus package is very 
blind-friendly. I have heard that f-secure for windows used to be 
speech friendly but that was several years ago and those things tend to change.

Good luck and safe computing!
Doris

>yo Doris,
>
>thanks a lot. That's what I was missing and hoping for. I never heard the
>news about the upgrade that happened last week. Now I get it. I don't very
>much mind needing a pair of eyes for dealing with the occasional CAPTCHA I
>encounter, as I've got a routine worked out with a friend where he can log
>into some things under my ID and pass and take care of it. We used to do
>this elaborate dance every time I wanted to post a Craig's List ad, for
>example, although Craig's List finally broke down and installed an audio
>alternative to the visual CAPTCHA, bless their hearts.
>
>Thanks again. I'll keep your recommendations on file. Although money does
>matter to me, I would be willing to use a paid antivirus service if any of
>those were known to be really nice and Jaws friendly and/or there were
>scripts for them. But I don't think much attention has been paid, either on
>their side or on our side (FS and/or personal script writers) to any of this
>stuff. So it goes.
>
>Joel
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris & Doris" <chipmunks at gmx.net>
>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 12:51 PM
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Is AVG Free Edition v. 7.5 being obsolesced by a
>free v. 8?
>
>
>There is an AVG free edition out brandnew as of April 23rd. It is not
>very accessible at all and apparently crashes wen jaws is running.
>
>ACG free 7.5 is still being updated for the time being. Mine does nag
>me with a banner to upgrade from time to time but I can just close
>out of that nag screen with an alt+f4.
>
>I would stick with avg free 7.5 for now and see whawtwill be done
>about the accessibility issues of version 8.0. Unless they are
>resolved, I would personally switch to another free antivirus package
>once avg free 7.5 is no longer updated.
>
>Free alternatives are Avast Home edition or Antivir Personal. The
>former seems to be the more sophisticated of the two free offerings
>but will require a pair of eyes every year because avast home
>requires a free registration or reregistration every 12 months which
>unfortuantley involves some visual verification gizmo with no audio
>alternative that I am aware of. Antivir is a bit more basic but
>easier to handle and pretty accessible also.
>
>hth
>
>Doris
>At 12:19 PM 4/28/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >On the JFW and Blind Tech lists, a number of people have been going back
> >and
> >forth about how to find, download and cope with what they vaguely refer to
> >as AVG version 8. It seems that a relatively few stalwart Jaws jockeys have
> >figured out how to use it with the Jaws cursor and a bunch of workarounds,
> >but the general consensus among the non-clever seems to be that it's not
> >what they want to hassle with.
> >
> >Meantime, my AVG Free Edition keeps on being updated daily, works okay when
> >I manually run a scan every few days, and has never displayed an update
> >notice and invitation to upgrade. Ever.  And believe me, some of my
> >programs
> >are not shy about that; every so often, Winamp presents an update dialogue
> >when it launches, a dialogue I can't touch with Jaws and which blocks my
> >access to the player's controls.
> >
> >I Curious to learn more,I went to the appropriate Grisoft page for the free
> >download of AVG, but the text around the download link doesn't say which
> >version the free version currently is. And then there's some promotional
> >information about Version 8, but I swear they refer to it as a security
> >suite, not just the simple antivirus program that's all I have and all I
> >want. And there's a table there that seems to indicate that they want $35
> >for the personal version and $55 for the company one. So how is this a
> >replacement for mine? But the mailing list people keep talking about this
> >stuff , and I just can't figure out what's happening from reading the
> >messages in these threads.
> >
> >I asked about this on JFW, and no one has replied. And I don't want to ask
> >on Blind Tech, because instead of a congenial, informative response from
> >someone who knows, the first reply will be from a certain person who feels
> >it incumbent upon him to lecture me about how I must not be a disciplined
> >Jaws user or I would know that you use this command to do this, and you
> >refer to this page element by that name, and how all blind computer users
> >must learn to avail themselves of tutorial material and learn the rudiments
> >of Windows and Jaws, yadda yadda. I'm serious. This person does this stuff,
> >this pedagogical pontificating, at the drop of a hat. So I can't write my
> >inquiry freely, as I've done here, and expect a friendly, straightforward
> >reply without overexplanation (another thing he always does) and a lecture.
> >I wrote him privately once and asked why he does this, and he said that he
> >knows that I may understand more than that about how to use my computer,
> >Windows, and Jaws, but he feels a responsibility to use every list question
> >as an opportunity to educate everyone, etc.
> >
> >Sorry to vent like this, but it's infuriating and frustrating. Because
> >Blind
> >Tech has the advantage of being high traffic and having a fair number of
> >sober, well informed subscribers, and so I feel badly about having to avoid
> >it. Oh, well.
> >
> >So , does anybody know what's up with AVG and its free editions? Am I okay
> >standing pat, so long as AVG doesn't send me a notice saying they won't be
> >updating the definitions for v. 7.5 anymore?
> >
> >thanks, all. Again, sorry for the rant. Please indulge me this one time.
> >Thanks a lot.
> >
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> >No virus found in this incoming message.
> >Checked by AVG.
> >Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.5/1401 - Release Date:
> >4/28/2008 7:18 AM
>
>
>
>"Pray, pray, pray!" - Pray without ceasing. (1 Th 5:17)
>
>
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No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG. 
Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.5/1401 - Release Date: 4/28/2008 7:18 AM