Protecting Windows

Clive Menzies clive at clivemenzies.co.uk
Thu Feb 9 09:49:24 UTC 2006


On (09/02/06 14:32), Brian Astill wrote:
> Greetings, all.
> Can anyone help with this issue?
> 
> Person with deteriorating vision has discovered Dragon 
> Naturally Speaking which not only allows the construction of text 
> from speech but can also speak from received text.  ie letter writing 
> and email conversing etc become possible for the visually impaired.
> 
> All of which is wonderful except - you guessed it - the %$$#@*& 
> program runs on Windows 2000/XP only.  Why would anyone in their  
> right mind NOT port a program as sensible as this to a SECURE OS?
> 
> So .. what can be done?  Would a good firewall (FBSD?), then distro of 
> choice (Ubuntu) and run 2000 in a virtual machine from Linux, protect 
> our visually impaired operator from inadvertently triggering a 
> virus/trojan/worm embedded in an innocent email or text-based 
> web-page or VB-embedded-script in a MSOffice document?
> 
> What arrangement would you suggest to enclose Windows in a "safe" 
> environment? 
> 
> Alternatively, anyone know of a "Dragon Naturally Speaking" port to 
> *nix or an app that achieves the same effects in OOO and (say) 
> Firefox?

Have you looked at gnopernicus; I looked at it briefly on behalf of
someone I know who is blind and locked into the Windows world.  I couldn't
get very far with it but it has the potential to be a replacement.

Regards

Clive

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