Hmmm its not a virus. It uses versions of ffmpeg and youtube dl both of which are opensource components. The program runs on oracle java as its engine. Its got an innosetup installer and thats

Since I haven't seen any reports of such unwanted programs or malware and it is a popular program, a false positive is the logical and by far the more probable explanation. Gene

Pontes is a program specifically made for blind people, not saying that that exempts it from crapware, but it probably has a higher chance of not having any than any mainstream converter.

Just run it in Firefox with uBlock Origin and you'll be fine. It's probably something on the page itself. I have it installed and have had no issues with it.

What program is giving you the warning? and when do you get it? The program is very popular among blind people and a large number are using it. I've seen no reports of it containing a trojan or of

is there a portible version of Pontesbecause the webpage gives me a warning of a Trojan

What is this talking boot, what is it for, and how do you use it? Thank you for any information that you might have concerning these questions.

This will get you started, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/15088/windows-10-create-installation-media Tim M

Lost my copy of this. Where can it be got? Andrea

Hi David, The current version of NVDA is 2020.2. Some of the add-ons that I find most helpful are add ons documentation which you can use to get help for working with each add on you choose to

Ron, that's good to know. Even in cases where the program is great, sometimes it gets distributed on other websites where it's loaded w/crapware, & then it's not. So in a case like Pons, just make

HI Jackie, FYI, Pontes does not have any spyware or Potentially Unwanted Programs that come along with it.  The one you have to be careful of is the FreeMake converter.  That used to be a good

But you can set the program to download in MP4 and not convert the file. Sometimes for some reason, a file you want to convert to MP3 may remain in the unconverted MP4 format. I'm not sure if I've

Regarding safe downloads of this program, if you download it from the developers, it is safe. http://www.pontes.ro/en/scripts/#pmd Gene

Yes, I use Ponts myself. Sometimes you get mp4. Uuauslly you get mp3. Sent from Mail for Windows 10

If you do a Google search for NVDA add-on nativeaccess, you will likely find any that are available, if any. When I want to know if there is an add-on for a program, rather than go to the add-ons

Please be careful when downloading video converters. They tend to be notorious for containing potentially unwanted programs (PUP's) or even outright malware. I can't count the number of machines I've

Hi Heddy, Pontes Media Downloader does give you the option to download the full unconverted video from Youtube.  It also allows  conversion to MP3 and other audio formats.  I am totally blind

I spent a lot of time searching Google for an accessible video downloader that works with nvda. I came accros Ummy Video Downloader  and it looks like a possibility but unfortunately it allows only

I'd like to know if there are any addons for nativeaccess? If so, where can I get it? P.S. I'm also interested in the ocr but i'm not sure whether NVDA already has an ocr engine. I've updated to