Hi David,
I did have to talk to Cobolt so I did ask if there was any antivirus for
blindshell. There is none at the moment, so I would suggest that people be very
careful.
Norman.
From: access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of David Griffith
Sent: 11 January 2021 16:08
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: blind shell anti virus
In terms of anti-virus there is a provider side protection offered by some
phone providers. I think it is called something like Web safe or something like
that from Vodaphone. I was actually trying to disable it as it costs me £1 a
month extra but since the sudden appearance of the Web Browser in Blind shell I
guess I will leave it in place.
I am not sure if it offers any protection via Wi-Fi however.
In any case I wonder if there is anything substantial that any malicious code
could find to operate with the Blind Shell Classic anyway.
I have not tried since the latest update last week or so but before I could
not, for example, sign into websites like the BBC or Goo gle. They were not
even recognising my email account. I had assumed that it was because of the
basic nature of the browser.
If it could not even recognise me as a user I doubted whether any code could do
anything harmful. However I certainly will not be putting credit card details
etc into the websites via the phone.
I would be interested to hear if anybody else has succeeded in signing into any
websites like the BBC using Blind Shell.
David G.
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Sent: 11 January 2021 12:50
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: blind shell anti virus
Hazel
I agree that the Blind Shell keyboard membrane can be a bit suspect, mine has
always been that way. As for Cobolt, sorry but I don't rate them highly at
all, they are not clued up on what they sell.
Kind regards,
Jackie Brown
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Behalf Of Hazel
Sent: 11 January 2021 09:47
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Subject: [access-uk] blind shell anti virus
Now that the blind shell phone has a web browser does it also have any anti
virus?
Who in their right mind would put any personal details on this without any
security.
My husband has one of these phones.
Last year I sent 3 faulty blind shells back to Cobolt and would never touch one
again.
the first had a replacement membrane as the keeys skipped letters.
&n bsp;
This only lasted a few weeks and was replaced.
Second one had the same problem and Cobolt could not find the fault so sent it
back to the manufacturer for diagnostic tests where they found the problem I
described .
Phone 3 arrived this one only had very low volume so off this went too.
Again no one at Cobolt could hear there was any probplem, so I suggested
sending it off for testing again.
Now here comes the final crunch.
The nerd I spoke to who shall remain nameless said they would send it off but
there would be a cost.
When I asked to whom t he cost would be, he said it would be me.
So here you can all use your imagination as to what I told him.
I got my refund back.
Also last year I needed to buy a new Victor Reader Stream as the spring that
loads the SD card packed up.
The one I recieved had a fault with the speaker.
It sounded crackly and muffled.
The replacement was fine.
This brings me to the point that not many devices for blind people are of good
quality .
Bring back the good old Nokia phones.
&nbs p;
Hazel
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