I like both Avast & MalwareBytes. Avast has saved my bacon on more
than 1 occasion & is accessible via the right-click menu w/an
occasional need for jaws cursoring. Malwarebytes comes in a free,
e.g., scan-on-demand version, & a paid realtime protection version. Be
careful about putting 2 realtime protection programs on your machine
that try to protect from the same threats, else a cyber-tug-of-war may
well ensue, neither program can do its intended job, & your protection
is actually lessened as a result.
SpywareBlaster is a free, realtime spyware protector. Spybott
Search-&-Destroy also is free & provides some realtime protection.
Superantispyware has both a free & paid version--same sort of thing as
Malwarebytes--& is very very accessible.
I've not found a really good accessible firewall solution, but, check
to see if your router has 1 built in. The advantage there is that your
processor power isn't taken up w/firewall tasks.
On 5/10/10, Tyler Littlefield <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I like malware bytes, it's very acccessible (with some use of the jaws
cursor), which never hurt anyone. AVG is also nice, (and also
accessible,
with more jaws cursor work).
----- Original Message -----
From: "DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26"
<jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:29 AM
Subject: RE: Looking for good replacement for Windows OneCare
The popular security packages are very inaccessible. Among these are
avg; zone alarm, and ad aware and it doesn't matter whether real money
was paid for your screen reader either. Since on some of the machines
I
use are win 98 machines they'll not run the popular stuff either. What
they will run is clamwin though and I've found that pretty accessible.
The clamwin package is a port of the linux clamav package and now has
some spyware killing capability. Another package that comes with high
ratings from security professionals I talk with is malware bites but I
don't know much about its accessibility status. The security
professional I talk to doesn't consider avg; zone alarm, MacCaffey's or
Norton to be worth paying for either. I'm pretty sure he did buy
malware bites package though.
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert
Jaquiss
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:34
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Looking for good replacement for Windows OneCare
Hello List:
For about three years, I have been using Windows Live OneCare for
its firewall, antivirus scanning and backup facilities. Microsoft is no
longer renewing OneCare, so I need to find something else. I am running
Windows XP Home and use JAWS 11. I need to replace all three functions
of virus scanning, firewall and backup. Any thoughts would be
appreciated. Thank you.
Regards,
Robert Jaquiss
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