RE: Add aware and jaws 6
- From: Bruce Toews <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:22:54 -0500 (CDT)
No, it's been my experience that Ad Aware does not indiscriminately delete
cookies. I personally have never lost a desirable cookie because of Ad
Aware.
Bruce
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Chris Feist wrote:
> Actually, I think it's me that is misunderstanding. I was thinking that
> Ad-Aware collects each and every cookie and deletes them all. If I
> understand what you're saying, those cookies that I wish to keep, such
> as ones for registered newspaper Web sites, will not come up in the
> scan? If so, then I'm worried about nothing and should just go ahead
> and select all.
>
> I guess it just boils down to me feeling a bit nervous about deleting
> items without being completely sure that I would want to do so.
>
> Chris Feist - The one and only!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Yardbird
>
> Hi,
> I just want to interject that my experience hasn't been that AdAware
> indiscriminately wipes out all the useful cookies in my cookie folder.
> If
> that were the case, I'm be one very unhappy and inconvenienced puppy.
> I'd
> be unable to log onto a number of sites that are vitally important to
> me
> without the time consuming, and labor intensive (using a screen reader)
> task of reregistering every time I'd run AdAware. Which isn't the case.
>
> If you meant some very specific types of cookies are deleted or
> quarantined
> by AdAware when you use the Mark All feature, and not all cookies,
> please
> explain. I scan with AdAware once a day or so, and if I had to
> reregister
> every day to read the newspaper I read online and to let Amazon know
> that it
> was I who'd just logged on, and to connect with my account, I wouldn't
> be
> using AdAware, you can be sure.
>
> Am I misunderstanding what you're saying, here? If so, please explain.
>
> thank you very much,
> Daniel
> From: "Chris Feist" <ccfeist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Selecting all with Control + M didn't work in Ad-Aware on one computer,
> but on my other computer I haven't tried to select all yet. I'll give
> it a try. But, of course, my main concern is not being able to pick and
> choose which items to quarantine. To give an example, I do have some
> convenient cookies that I don't want deleted which select all will
> remove. Sure, I would instruct Ad-Aware to ignore those particular
> items, but that brings me back around to the original problem which is
> not being able to select the items individually.
>
> At any rate, it sounds like Ad-Aware works fine for most everyone for
> the basics.
>
> Chris Feist - The one and only!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of John Miller
>
> if you use the key strokes, control+M to select all and control for
> next, it
> should work just fine.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Feist" <ccfeist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Wendy. The script for Ad-aware helped me utilize the program to some
> degree, but I still have difficulties using the program. In fact, on a
> secondary computer, the script didn't really help at all. Where I
> usually run in to a problem is the area that I'd select the items I want
> to quarantine. Anyway, my point is that the script may help or it may
> not depending on the behavior of Ad-Aware on your particular computer
> plus your familiarity with it. For me, I'm about ready to give up and
> hope to come across a more Jaws-friendly program since I can scan but
> not quarantine. But hey, it's worth a try and may work just fine for
> you.
>
> Chris Feist - The one and only!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of RJ
>
> First get the scripts from the JFWlite page and unzip them in your enew
> folder
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wendy Alling" <goldador@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Hi listers. I can't get add aware to work with jaws 6 at all. Any
> help
>> would be appreciated on what to do here.
>>
>> Wendy
>>
>>
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