As a tangent on this, I also know people who prefer screen readers rather than, say, books on tape (or similar) because even the best of the new voices don't put the kind of inflections on narrative

Roger, I will repeat this one last time: Windows Defender automatically updates its own definitions like all other modern antiviruses do. It would be worse than worthless if it

I have yet to see any virus/malware or similar that can physically destroy hardware. Some of these infections are truly hideous, and can basically brick your computer, but if you have someone who

Someone mentioned that the checking for virus database updates in Defender could be set with Task Scheduler. I tried looking around in it and I find a long list of tasks that it can

Oh good. Those things are a parasite.

Hi, Gene, I asked my neighbor for proof of her computer being destroyed but she couldn't give me an answer. I had a trojan on my old computer but it didn't totally destroy it.

I don't know if any malware can physically damage a computer. Most malware doesn't. it may do all sorts of things you don't want it to do but physically destroying your computer is the least of the

Yup. And you're 100% correct about there being no need to clean it for security reasons. There are all kinds of urban legends regarding security as well as information that was once correct, that

Hi, Arleen, I try to be very careful about what sites I visit. My next-door neighbor told me that one time she had a virus and it totally destroyed her computer. I don't know

Gene wrote: "I'm very careful about not opening attachments. but even so, there was one time in perhaps fifteen years or longer, that I wasn't really thinking much about what I was doing and opened

History is nothing more than a record of sites you have visited. There is no reason to clean history unless you don't want people to know what sites you have visited. Malware doesn't care what sites

Hello NVDA group, Websites like www.daisy.org highly recommend author Dave Gunn's "Accessible eBook Guidelines ....." (title snipped). Have you found accessibility and or compatibility with major

Also, if you visit sites. Even if you have IE or firefox or edge clean out the history. You may have to manually get rid of history. Even though you have your virus scan up to date always clean your

Oh okay. Yes the del is at the end.

hi are you using A screen reader with virpe? If so what version of the internet security are you running? Also to you like them to stick with them and how easy is it to change options in that program

Oh okay. I needed to go to bed! Loll! What had happened the Audio file was supposed to be Jeopardy! But it ended up being Judge Judy. When I opened the link in my sent files. It would not download. I

No matter how careful you are, you can still be infected, even by going to reputable sites if those sites are hacked or if the advertising on those sites is hacked. Yes, people should follow good

I agree, the first point of security should be your head. Next I'd use something like firefox with better privacy for flash cookies, ublock for adds, and noscript for scripts. That way if you click

I have not found this to be the case under Windows 10. If you open Windows Defender you can see when the last virus definition update has taken place, and that's often very recent even when I've had

I have seen virtually any antivirus or security suite you can name either praised to the high heavens or called almost completely useless. It really depends on who's doing the reviewing and the