[gui-talk] CAPTCHA Killer (was Re: Avast Home Edition - Was:Re: IsAVG FreeEditionv.7.5 being obsolesced by a free v. 8?)

Tue Apr 29 15:28:35 CDT 2008

thank you!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] CAPTCHA Killer (was Re: Avast Home Edition - Was:Re: 
IsAVG FreeEditionv.7.5 being obsolesced by a free v. 8?)

hi,
www.captchakiller.com

it's free!

email: jkenn337 at gmail.com
msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com
skype: jkenn337
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 3:41 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] CAPTCHA Killer (was Re: Avast Home Edition - Was: Re:
IsAVG FreeEditionv.7.5 being obsolesced by a free v. 8?)

> (how's that, Doris? Teasing.)
>
> Josh, could you please provide the link to this service again? I'm hoping
> to
> have it within the same message and reply so that it'll be easier to save
> for future reference, along with your instructions about how it works.
> Thanks.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 4:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Avast Home Edition - Was: Re: Is AVG
> FreeEditionv.7.5 being obsolesced by a free v. 8?
>
>
> Hi,
> captchakiller works for most images. You'll have to try it and see. what
> you
> do is you make a free captchakiller account. then you save the captcha you
> want recognised to your computer and upload it to captchakiller after
> you're
> logged in. you then click on view captchas and refresh the page every so
> often till you see the result of the recognised captcha. Some of them
> cannot
> be recognised and will just expire if they can't be recognised. firefox
> has
> a free plug-in that will send the image directly to captchakiller after
> choosing it from the menu the context menu that comes up.
>
> Josh
>
> email: jkenn337 at gmail.com
> msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com
> skype: jkenn337
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 6:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Avast Home Edition - Was: Re: Is AVG Free
> Editionv.7.5 being obsolesced by a free v. 8?
>
>
>> Josh,
>>
>> thanks for this info. Would you mind saying more about captchakiller? I
>> don't mind going to the site to check it out, but I'd love to know from
>> you
>> what it does and whether or not you've been able to make satisfied use of
>> it
>> on occasion.
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
>> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 3:24 PM
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Avast Home Edition - Was: Re: Is AVG Free Edition
>> v.7.5 being obsolesced by a free v. 8?
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> and if you need help with the image captcha, email support and they'll
>> give
>> you a key, or just use www.captchakiller.com .
>>
>> Josh
>>
>> email: jkenn337 at gmail.com
>> msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com
>> skype: jkenn337
>> ----- 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 5:05 PM
>> Subject: [gui-talk] Avast Home Edition - Was: Re: Is AVG Free Edition v.
>> 7.5
>> being obsolesced by a free v. 8?
>>
>>
>>> 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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>>>>4/28/2008
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Pray, pray, pray!" - Pray without ceasing. (1 Th 5:17)
>>>
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>>> 4/28/2008
>>> 7:18 AM
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