I agree, I'm starting to get really annoyed with AVG now, but I haven't tried removing it yet because I've heard stories of stuff breaking. Absolutel gutted it's come to this, because we trust companies. That's what they get for getting too greedy or overprotective.

I'm using esset internet security and it's working flawlessly with JAWS. It even has a built-in firewall. Using this with malwarebytes.

I am also looking for a good and accessible Anti-Virus-Program. At the moment, I am forced to rely on Windows Defender. But since there is no safe way to install windows updates anymore without getting weird notifications, that your CPU is not supported by windows anymore, which is complete bs, I don't know, if Windwos Defender still gets all the updates. And no, I am not using Windows 10.

Your CPU isn't supported by Windows? What the heck? Neverh heard of that one.

Well since I got windows 10 anyway, Windows defender came with it and I'm quite happy with it thus far, particularly it's  accessibility.
I did use malware bites for a while but I'm not sure what the access is like on some of the buttons with nvda these days, if anyone has experience I'd appreciate knowing since a bit of extra security never hurt, and malware bites was always good at getting the stuff that  other antivirus programs missed.

Avg sadly has gone totally down the tubes. It's sad really, I used it from about 2005 onwards, but every new version was less accessible, it's almost getting as bad as avast these days, where any notification ois unreadable, which is rather pointless for an antivirus . We're even going to need sighted help in removing the damnable thing since guess what, the uninstaller is completely inaccessible these days and even C cleaner can't remove without Avg's own uninstallation program.

I suppose if Avg used to have the good tech support they used to have I could phone them and discuss the problem, accept that said tech support also went down the proverbial  swonny too.

Maybe they don't do that with Windows 7. Or maybe it depends on which hardware, the computer has. I don't know. But it happened to me. When I googled it, I got confirmed, that there is indeed an update, that causes this message, to make people switch to Windows 10.

With regards to malware bites, with supernova I remember the main  problem were the action buttons on what  to do with stuff.
running scans, seeing threats, even  changing update times, all fine, just a case of hitting the  right tab and button, but for some reason the program used these very odd message boxes.
You could read the message, but the actual button to click to say  choose an infection to   quarantine, or whether to quarantine and delete or just quarantine wasn't readable.

This sadly also seemed to count the registration box, since I did look at buying malware bites a couple of years ago but then couldn't actually register the thing.
On the plus side, basically all I had to do with most notification boxes was just hit tab once and enter, which would quarantine threats first off, and then empty the quarantine section later which helped.

how Nvda does with malware bites,  I don't know though, since with supernova I was using virtual focus fairly exclusively and oviously things in Nvda are different.

Odd there Crashmaster, I used malware bites on two different xp machines and never had any problems with hardware etc, just the issues with the text boxes I mentioned.

It didn't find stuff as often, but since it was auto scanning every day and it was difficult to check the quarantine box  I wouldn't have known if it necessary found anything specific a lot of the time, not  unless I'd by mistake stumbled onto a dodgy site and run a scan just in case.

On the plus side I began using it when I ran across something Avg wouldn't handle, or at least Avg kept getting threat messages and I had an annoying popup constantly appearing again and again which it cleared up fine.
Malware bites though does seem to be one of these things  first time it's likely to find stuff, later it is less so since it eats things up one at a time if you come to them, which is what you want.
this is why I wonder about the accessibility with nvda.

Hmmm, that is odd.
With supernova I had the most recent version of Malware bites up until November of last year on my xp machine, and as I said the majority of the program was okay, it was only those annoying notifications that were a major problem.
I'm actually surprised there isn't an Nvda addon for the thing given how popular it is.

@Orko Dark didn't say that you used NVDA, they were just wondering if there's an addon for NVDA that works with malwarebites.

Well Aaron said it  [

Which is all I meant, just a general comment regarding the status of Nvda support and antivirus programs as per this topic.

If I had been directing the comment more generally I would have used an at sign and the name: eg

@orco to indicate to whom I was speaking.

Still, apology noted, and not a problem.