[gui-talk] Is AVG Free Edition v. 7.5 being obsolesced by afreev. 8?

Tue Apr 29 22:30:21 CDT 2008

hey Albert,

I don't know. My ISP certainly boasts an antivirus thing along with a pretty 
good spam filter (catches about 150 spams a day), but I just never assumed 
that it would be prudent for me not to run my own such program. Like AVG.

But maybe the ISP's protection helps to account for why I've hardly ever 
turned up any sort of threat in a virus scan.

I forget whether the ISP has any sort of anti spyware protection for me. But 
I keep running AdAware and updating it manually plus Windows Defender, and 
every week when I run AdAware I find a bunch of junk I have to quarantine or 
delete. So I guess the ISP isn't doing that sort of protection for me.
junmk
Hmm.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Is AVG Free Edition v. 7.5 being obsolesced by 
afreev. 8?

Keep in mind that many ISP's are offering free antivirus and spyware
detection programs for free.  I've found that accessibility isn't important
except for one exception I have to make and that is not to have it scan for
.kes files produced by K1000.  I have to have a sightling set that for me
but it's only once.

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces+albertgriffith=sbcglobal.net at nfbnet.org
[mailto:gui-talk-bounces+albertgriffith=sbcglobal.net at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 4:29 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Is AVG Free Edition v. 7.5 being obsolesced by afree
v. 8?

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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>4/28/2008 7:18 AM

"Pray, pray, pray!" - Pray without ceasing. (1 Th 5:17)

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