The good news is that Jaws 10 demo did indeed provide access to AVG firewall settings that my Jaws 8 could not reach. The bad news is that despite the AVG advice I have now been locked out of my home network after setting up the configuration wizard under computer and domain profile!
Back yet again to AVG tech support I suppose. Regards David Griffith My Low Vision Resources Web Site is http://www.nonags.org/members/dajgriff/ -----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of David Griffith Sent: Wednesday, 07 January 2009 12:19 To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] AVG 8 Good point. It is Jaws 8. I will try the demo of 10. Regards David Griffith My Low Vision Resources Web Site is http://www.nonags.org/members/dajgriff/ -----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Alex Stone Sent: Wednesday, 07 January 2009 11:58 To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] AVG 8 David, What version of jaws are you using? It's not as inaccessible for me as it sounds like it is for you. Cheers Alex -----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of David Griffith Sent: 07 January 2009 11:43 To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] AVG 8 Update on AVG and Firewall Settings Further to my last post I went into AVG advance Firewall settings for stand alone PC as this was the only accessible part of the program I could find. I set it to find networks. On my PC restart AVG detected the Home network but the only options allowed again were to block stand alone or allow. As I wanted my home network I selected allow. My home network is back but on checking with the AVG user interface the entire firewall settings have been changed back to allow all, the settings I had been advised not to have. So I am no further forward and I am presumably running a PC at risk. Very frustrating. I cannot understand that a part of the software that is obviously designed to detect home networks does not have the option to select the appropriate home network settings. Calling these settings computer and domain is also not very helpful or intuitive. I am now minded to switch to another anti virus / internet security package even though I have a year of AVG licence left. . Does anybody know if AVAST supports home networking more intelligently? Regards David Griffith My Low Vision Resources Web Site is http://www.nonags.org/members/dajgriff/ -----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of David Griffith Sent: Wednesday, 07 January 2009 11:04 To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] AVG 8 I am getting a little disillusioned with AVG and its Firewall. I rung their technical support a few months ago and they told me I had to upgrade to version 8 before they could address a Malware infection on my PC. In the event they could not help anyway and I had to restore my PC from a Ghost image to resolve the problem. Nevertheless I upgraded to version 8 to try and prevent future problems. The problem is that in version 8 accessibility with Jaws has plummeted. Seeing the issues today about what settings the Firewall should b on I rang AVG technical support . Like others I had chosen the allow all setting as opposed to block all or stand alone PC. AVG tech support said that actually none of these options suited a PC user with a home network linking to a laptop for example. It seems that because of the hidden nature of the appropriate settings I have been incorrectly keeping the setting on allow all and receiving minimal protection. No wonder I have been having to resort to Super Anti-Spyware! They recommended that the Firewall configuration wizard be run completely from scratch and apparently from this wizard there is an option to select Computer and Domain as an option, this option does not appear in the main settings of AVG 8 . Apparently you can then nominate a name for your home network which does not have to correlate to your actual home network name. This option will apparently allow you to have firewall protection and use a home network. The other advice was not to try and modify existing settings as this apparently causes problems. Start with a completely new configuration wizard.. The problem is that I have spent the last 30 minutes trying to locate the Configuration Wizard for the Firewall within a very flaky User interface. I have been using the Jaws cursor and the PC Cursor. At the moment I am able to locate a Firewall button using the Jaws cursor but no amount of real or virtual mouse clicking will activate this button. Space or enter will not work on this button either. You can enter Firewall settings through the menu but again I cannot find a button to start the configuration wizard. I'll try restarting the PC in a minute to see if that accessibility can be improved. Given that home networks are pretty common these days I am quite annoyed that the default installation of AVG appears to lead you into a risky Firewall setup. If anybody else can set up computer and domain as the profile within the AVG 8 firewall I would be very glad to hear how they did it. Regards David Griffith My Low Vision Resources Web Site is http://www.nonags.org/members/dajgriff/ -----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Chris Hallsworth Sent: Wednesday, 07 January 2009 08:47 To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] AVG 8 Oh no. I have told it to "allow all", should I have chosen "standalone computer" instead? I'll do it now, but any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. -- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patricia Dunbar" <patricia-dun...@sbcglobal.net> To: "BPC" <Blind-Computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 5:09 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] AVG 8 > Hello, > > I just installed the AVG 8 and all that went fairly well. I just had a > concern in regards to the firewall settings and was wondering if anyone on > here might be using this and can tell me what exactly should I check or > not check for the firewall settings. > I did run the scan and it detected all the ports I need to be allowed to > go through the firewall. > A last screen popped up regarding the firewall stuff such as it detected > my LAN settings and gave me 3 options...allow all, block all and stand > alone computer*I chose this last one* > Also a couple of box's to be checked and I didn't check either and last 2 > were for a name so the firewall can use that name when it loads and a > profile and I chose no profile. > > I did check within the AVG through my systems tray and found I am fully > protected and the firewall is fully functioning. So I guess I did that > right and I wonder if that last screen was just personal info if you chose > to set it up that way? > > I have to remind y'all the last time I tried to install this, I got a > screen saying I had to uninstall Office and Outlook Express which I did > neither and canceld it. > Since that time, I have installed Office 2003 and would you know...that > never popped up during the install of AVG 8. > > Patricia > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ > To post to this group, send email to > blind-computing@jaws-users.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > blind-computing-le...@jaws-users.com > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > blind-computing-requ...@jaws-users.com > Use the 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