Agreed, I just wish there was a coman list one could share of all the
possible false alarms and put them into some sort of configuration.
It will mean that I will have to structure my drives so these things are
excluded.
In fact I will be excluding my entire backup drive, and all my external
drives, and then installing things in excluded locations.
Every blind game and blindy software package bar nvda seems to be a risk
from bgt through vbb6 and so who knows.
In the short term I still have this windows 7 system and it still works.
If I didn't do all my banking online and use paypal I think I'd just use
xp with no security at all.
On 5/21/2018 12:44 AM, Damien Garwood wrote:
Hi,
Honestly, that isn't a smart idea. I didn't have an antivirus for
about a year, in between the downfall of Avast's accessibility and
finding out about MSSE, and I must have obtained about a dozen viruses.
Unfortunately, inaccurate though they are, they're our only active
safety net. Especially from the real nasties that go and just about
delete everything they find or send spam from your email and so on.
Cheers,
Damien.
On 20/05/2018 01:05 PM, Oriol Gómez wrote:
easy solution, uninstall antivirus.
I haven't had antivirus for ages except for windows defender and I end
up disabling defender if I can anyway lol
On 5/20/18, Shaun Everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote:
Whatever, bgt I know was bad practice but what about the rest.
that does make me wander how well coded any software app is.
Then its just another unknown.
No, antivirus software targets the blind because it does, I doubt I
will
find the answer to the other question.
I will have to add it to all the other things I found this month like
why does the reserved partition fill on a system with little use, or
why
does the windows profile corrupt when I am not doing anything stupid or
alegal.
All I know is that antivirus actually used to target viruses, now it
targets almost anything not certified by microsoft or something.
On 5/21/2018 12:00 AM, Oriol Gómez wrote:
antivurs programs don't target the blind, wtf are you saying?
You really have no idea
it's bad coding practices they target, not blind people...
On 5/20/18, Shaun Everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote:
True but antivirus programs target the blind and software with so
many
exceptions that its going to be a miracle we find any virus at all.
At any rate the folders likely to get any virus are cloud folders
like
google, dropbox, etc, then your downloads folder.
Sadly its not just bgt, its got to do with certification.
Basically if it doesn't have a signature that says a company owns
this
or microsoft says its ok its unknown and probably nasty.
This is fine and usually you let through what it is.
However, if its flagged a virus because its unknown, then as far as
microsoft says its a virus and then you exclude it and it goes away.
In most cases, your head is probably more right than your security
software, if it doesn't look right or you get a voice telling you
there
is something odd about something then its probably right and you
should
avoid it.
Bgt is known its why people are pulling away from it, its old tech
now
and becides its not developed anymore.
Sadly some older programs do the same thing.
It also effects some screen readers.
If you never played games, and or used anything bar microsoft
stuff your
system will run fine.
I have a lot of systems with java, itunes, ms programs, ccleaner,
7zip
and nvda as well as adobe programs.
Most of these have certificates and or windows concidders them ok.
Anything else.
To be honest, much as I hate it to bits, I am going to have all my
blind
software, from games to screen readers excluded because I don't trust
security software to leave my stuff alone.
I will even have a different directory for downloads I know are ok if
windows thinks its bad.
Sadly thats just the case for the blind.
Some sighted get it bad to.
On 5/20/2018 7:17 PM, Damien Garwood wrote:
Hi,
Right. But then what if you get a real virus in one of those
folders?
Basically, you're screwed. My motto: Never, ever, use, exceptions.
They're probably the very reason, or at least one of them, why
Windows
10 is 100% paranoid about security now.
Cheers,
Damien.
On 19/05/2018 10:11 PM, Josh Kennedy wrote:
I just told my virus scanner to ignore certain folders, and then
all
bgt games and stuff works fine.
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