From my experiences, Avast still needs some navigation with the jaws cursor, and even then you still don't find everything sometimes. It's almost like a hit and miss. Also, I just tried downloading avast for my laptop, and it seems that the newer version of the program is totally inaccessible with jaws. I still use avast on my home and studio comp, but I looked at the trial version of vipre, and its more accessible than avast. Omar Binno Website: www.omarbinno.com AIM: LOD1116 Skype: obinno1 ----- Original Message ----- From: joe To: realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 9:41 AM Subject: [realmusicians] Re: good virus scanning software Hi just thought I'd put a good word in for the free version of avast antivirus I've been using it for sometime now and can say I've had no noticeable loss of performance and it has picked up a few things with no dire consequence to my machine, it's quite accessible to Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Belle" <cb1963@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "realmusicians-freelists.org" <realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 3:56 AM Subject: [realmusicians] good virus scanning software > Well, I'm adding viper from sunbelt software for my latest favorite for > accessibility and thoroghness and not hogging the system. > > They got a 30 day trial and it seems you can put it on any machine and the > price is decent. > > I may buy this one. > > YOu can actually tab around to everything mostly, and it doesn't do the > silly stuff most of these virus programs seem to like taking focus away > and slowing down performance, I know they all do it some, avg, bit > defender, norton, it doesn't matter, but this one really is getting along > well on my system and it combines > all the goodies we usually like to have without the hassle. > > Time will tell ofcourse about any thing like run time library error and > junk, which was the reason I qauit using avg, but so far so good. > > I'm going to run this one for a while and I'll keep you guys posted. > > >