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Norton Plug-in (+Norton)
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I'm going to encourage a client to buy MS Office (prob 2003 from a box) so that he san see the edits I'm doing in Word from his manuscript (converted from Works). This will also let him read my schedules in Excel. 1 He already has Norton loaded on his Dell. I have read much on here about disabling the Norton Word Plug-in. Assuming that the rest of Norton is good, exactly how to I do this disabling? 2 Also, on my own laptop was some Norton stuff pre-loaded. The laptop keeps nagging me that I am vulnerable so click on the Norton, presumably to activate it. Is any payment involved? If not, how long does it last? Have posters found Nortons to be OK generally (apart from the plug-in)? And again, how exactly do I disable the Word plug-in? Thanks all. |
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Checking of Word/Office documents can usually be deselected in Norton AV by
turning off its Office Plug-in from the application's options. With some versions of the Norton product it may be necessary to unregister the calling DLL by running the following command line from Windows Start Run regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton antivirus\officeav.dll" or regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton systemworks\norton antivirus\officeav.dll" Other AV apps eg the popular free ediition of Grisoft's AVG antivirus software, require similar treatment. In this instance: regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\avgoff2k.dll" Norton AV is an application that you have to pay for. Though limited trials are often included with PCs. Once that trial has ended you have to pay for the updates. If you don't want to do that, download Grisoft's free version of its AVG software, uninstall Norton AV and install AVF Free. The updates for that are available daily. Make sure that whatever AV software you have you update it frequently - preferably automatically. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wrote: Hi all I'm going to encourage a client to buy MS Office (prob 2003 from a box) so that he san see the edits I'm doing in Word from his manuscript (converted from Works). This will also let him read my schedules in Excel. 1 He already has Norton loaded on his Dell. I have read much on here about disabling the Norton Word Plug-in. Assuming that the rest of Norton is good, exactly how to I do this disabling? 2 Also, on my own laptop was some Norton stuff pre-loaded. The laptop keeps nagging me that I am vulnerable so click on the Norton, presumably to activate it. Is any payment involved? If not, how long does it last? Have posters found Nortons to be OK generally (apart from the plug-in)? And again, how exactly do I disable the Word plug-in? Thanks all. |
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Sorry Graham, but I found this a bit difficult. Could you help me by
answering the exact questions that I posed in my original post? Thanks. I've got two problems. If I encourage my edit client (author) to buy Office, as he has Norton's already installed on his Dell, exactly what steps should he take to disable the Norton plug-in (he is even less of a computer expert than I am -- 'the application' doesn't tell either of us *which* application... New question: exactly what are the likely problems if he does not? Second problem: Do I activate the Norton software on my laptop when it keeps nagging me. How long does it last before I have to activate? How much is it to do that? Apart from the Office plug-in, are posters generally happy with Norton's? "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Checking of Word/Office documents can usually be deselected in Norton AV by turning off its Office Plug-in from the application's options. With some versions of the Norton product it may be necessary to unregister the calling DLL by running the following command line from Windows Start Run regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton antivirus\officeav.dll" or regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton systemworks\norton antivirus\officeav.dll" Other AV apps eg the popular free ediition of Grisoft's AVG antivirus software, require similar treatment. In this instance: regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\avgoff2k.dll" Norton AV is an application that you have to pay for. Though limited trials are often included with PCs. Once that trial has ended you have to pay for the updates. If you don't want to do that, download Grisoft's free version of its AVG software, uninstall Norton AV and install AVF Free. The updates for that are available daily. Make sure that whatever AV software you have you update it frequently - preferably automatically. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wrote: Hi all I'm going to encourage a client to buy MS Office (prob 2003 from a box) so that he san see the edits I'm doing in Word from his manuscript (converted from Works). This will also let him read my schedules in Excel. 1 He already has Norton loaded on his Dell. I have read much on here about disabling the Norton Word Plug-in. Assuming that the rest of Norton is good, exactly how to I do this disabling? 2 Also, on my own laptop was some Norton stuff pre-loaded. The laptop keeps nagging me that I am vulnerable so click on the Norton, presumably to activate it. Is any payment involved? If not, how long does it last? Have posters found Nortons to be OK generally (apart from the plug-in)? And again, how exactly do I disable the Word plug-in? Thanks all. |
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I am quite happy with NAV. It updates automatically without bothering me
(when I was on dial-up, I had it prompt me, but now that I have DSL, I just let it do its thing), and I've never had a virus. If NAV is installed normally, disable the Plug-in as follows: 1. Open Norton AntiVirus (right-click on the Systray icon and choose this option). 2. Click on the Options button at the top of the dialog. 3. In the Options dialog, click on Miscellaneous (menu on the left) 4. Clear the check box for "Enable Office Plug-in." 5. OK out and close NAV. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message ... Sorry Graham, but I found this a bit difficult. Could you help me by answering the exact questions that I posed in my original post? Thanks. I've got two problems. If I encourage my edit client (author) to buy Office, as he has Norton's already installed on his Dell, exactly what steps should he take to disable the Norton plug-in (he is even less of a computer expert than I am -- 'the application' doesn't tell either of us *which* application... New question: exactly what are the likely problems if he does not? Second problem: Do I activate the Norton software on my laptop when it keeps nagging me. How long does it last before I have to activate? How much is it to do that? Apart from the Office plug-in, are posters generally happy with Norton's? "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Checking of Word/Office documents can usually be deselected in Norton AV by turning off its Office Plug-in from the application's options. With some versions of the Norton product it may be necessary to unregister the calling DLL by running the following command line from Windows Start Run regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton antivirus\officeav.dll" or regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton systemworks\norton antivirus\officeav.dll" Other AV apps eg the popular free ediition of Grisoft's AVG antivirus software, require similar treatment. In this instance: regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\avgoff2k.dll" Norton AV is an application that you have to pay for. Though limited trials are often included with PCs. Once that trial has ended you have to pay for the updates. If you don't want to do that, download Grisoft's free version of its AVG software, uninstall Norton AV and install AVF Free. The updates for that are available daily. Make sure that whatever AV software you have you update it frequently - preferably automatically. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wrote: Hi all I'm going to encourage a client to buy MS Office (prob 2003 from a box) so that he san see the edits I'm doing in Word from his manuscript (converted from Works). This will also let him read my schedules in Excel. 1 He already has Norton loaded on his Dell. I have read much on here about disabling the Norton Word Plug-in. Assuming that the rest of Norton is good, exactly how to I do this disabling? 2 Also, on my own laptop was some Norton stuff pre-loaded. The laptop keeps nagging me that I am vulnerable so click on the Norton, presumably to activate it. Is any payment involved? If not, how long does it last? Have posters found Nortons to be OK generally (apart from the plug-in)? And again, how exactly do I disable the Word plug-in? Thanks all. |
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Thank you so much, Suzanne. This was exactly what I wanted. You done it
again. Time and time again you have saved readers of this ng umpteen hours of frustration. There'll be a jar of vegemite awaiting you if you ever come to Australia. Just one final question: How long is the preloaded version valid for and how much is the (presumably) annual update or activation arrangements. Oh, and I suppose one more question: Has it ever found anything? I suppose the cynical would say 'If it's found nothing then that might suggest it doesn't catch anything.' "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I am quite happy with NAV. It updates automatically without bothering me (when I was on dial-up, I had it prompt me, but now that I have DSL, I just let it do its thing), and I've never had a virus. If NAV is installed normally, disable the Plug-in as follows: 1. Open Norton AntiVirus (right-click on the Systray icon and choose this option). 2. Click on the Options button at the top of the dialog. 3. In the Options dialog, click on Miscellaneous (menu on the left) 4. Clear the check box for "Enable Office Plug-in." 5. OK out and close NAV. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message ... Sorry Graham, but I found this a bit difficult. Could you help me by answering the exact questions that I posed in my original post? Thanks. I've got two problems. If I encourage my edit client (author) to buy Office, as he has Norton's already installed on his Dell, exactly what steps should he take to disable the Norton plug-in (he is even less of a computer expert than I am -- 'the application' doesn't tell either of us *which* application... New question: exactly what are the likely problems if he does not? Second problem: Do I activate the Norton software on my laptop when it keeps nagging me. How long does it last before I have to activate? How much is it to do that? Apart from the Office plug-in, are posters generally happy with Norton's? "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Checking of Word/Office documents can usually be deselected in Norton AV by turning off its Office Plug-in from the application's options. With some versions of the Norton product it may be necessary to unregister the calling DLL by running the following command line from Windows Start Run regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton antivirus\officeav.dll" or regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton systemworks\norton antivirus\officeav.dll" Other AV apps eg the popular free ediition of Grisoft's AVG antivirus software, require similar treatment. In this instance: regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\avgoff2k.dll" Norton AV is an application that you have to pay for. Though limited trials are often included with PCs. Once that trial has ended you have to pay for the updates. If you don't want to do that, download Grisoft's free version of its AVG software, uninstall Norton AV and install AVF Free. The updates for that are available daily. Make sure that whatever AV software you have you update it frequently - preferably automatically. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wrote: Hi all I'm going to encourage a client to buy MS Office (prob 2003 from a box) so that he san see the edits I'm doing in Word from his manuscript (converted from Works). This will also let him read my schedules in Excel. 1 He already has Norton loaded on his Dell. I have read much on here about disabling the Norton Word Plug-in. Assuming that the rest of Norton is good, exactly how to I do this disabling? 2 Also, on my own laptop was some Norton stuff pre-loaded. The laptop keeps nagging me that I am vulnerable so click on the Norton, presumably to activate it. Is any payment involved? If not, how long does it last? Have posters found Nortons to be OK generally (apart from the plug-in)? And again, how exactly do I disable the Word plug-in? Thanks all. |
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When I bother to look at what NAV and also ZoneAlarmPro have caught, I can
see that they are doing their job (ZAP has more of a tendency, catlike, to present its prey for my approval and admiration), but the only time I have ever had any kind of infection was with the Blaster worm (August 2003), which I managed to get before news of it began to spread and the AV providers responded. Luckily, it was a relatively easy one to clean and didn't do any permanent damage. Still, I'm prudent about Web sites and careful about opening files. Hmm, looking at my logs, I see I also got a Backdoor.Coreflood infection in July 2004 and had to clean that through DOS, which I describe as a "nightmare." Again, though, there was no loss of data. Both infections actually did me a favor, as the Blaster one resulted in my getting around to updating Windows 2000 to SP4, and the other resulted in my upgrading from IE 5.0 to 6.0. The preloaded version is probably just good for 90 days. I thought this was a bit misleading when I bought a Dell with NAV thrown in as an "extra" and then found that after 90 days I had to pay for it (I thought I'd gotten a full year's subscription). I tend to be ambivalent about whether to just resubscribe each year (you do get downloads of the new engines along with the virus definitions, it seems) or to buy a boxed version so I have the CD. The last time I did the latter, I vowed never to do it again, as you have to uninstall NAV to install the new version (thus leaving the computer unprotected for the length of time it takes to install, and it's not practical to disconnect from the Internet because it wants to go online immediately to register and update), and I had some other installation woes that I won't go into, not to mention the nuisance of trying to get a rebate, etc. I thought maybe buying the retail version would provide more new bells and whistles than just renewing my subscription, but now I'm not convinced of that, and renewal is certainly a lot easier provided you don't mind giving credit card details online (though I seem to have had some sort of hassle the last time I tried to do that, too). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message ... Thank you so much, Suzanne. This was exactly what I wanted. You done it again. Time and time again you have saved readers of this ng umpteen hours of frustration. There'll be a jar of vegemite awaiting you if you ever come to Australia. Just one final question: How long is the preloaded version valid for and how much is the (presumably) annual update or activation arrangements. Oh, and I suppose one more question: Has it ever found anything? I suppose the cynical would say 'If it's found nothing then that might suggest it doesn't catch anything.' "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I am quite happy with NAV. It updates automatically without bothering me (when I was on dial-up, I had it prompt me, but now that I have DSL, I just let it do its thing), and I've never had a virus. If NAV is installed normally, disable the Plug-in as follows: 1. Open Norton AntiVirus (right-click on the Systray icon and choose this option). 2. Click on the Options button at the top of the dialog. 3. In the Options dialog, click on Miscellaneous (menu on the left) 4. Clear the check box for "Enable Office Plug-in." 5. OK out and close NAV. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message ... Sorry Graham, but I found this a bit difficult. Could you help me by answering the exact questions that I posed in my original post? Thanks. I've got two problems. If I encourage my edit client (author) to buy Office, as he has Norton's already installed on his Dell, exactly what steps should he take to disable the Norton plug-in (he is even less of a computer expert than I am -- 'the application' doesn't tell either of us *which* application... New question: exactly what are the likely problems if he does not? Second problem: Do I activate the Norton software on my laptop when it keeps nagging me. How long does it last before I have to activate? How much is it to do that? Apart from the Office plug-in, are posters generally happy with Norton's? "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Checking of Word/Office documents can usually be deselected in Norton AV by turning off its Office Plug-in from the application's options. With some versions of the Norton product it may be necessary to unregister the calling DLL by running the following command line from Windows Start Run regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton antivirus\officeav.dll" or regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton systemworks\norton antivirus\officeav.dll" Other AV apps eg the popular free ediition of Grisoft's AVG antivirus software, require similar treatment. In this instance: regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\avgoff2k.dll" Norton AV is an application that you have to pay for. Though limited trials are often included with PCs. Once that trial has ended you have to pay for the updates. If you don't want to do that, download Grisoft's free version of its AVG software, uninstall Norton AV and install AVF Free. The updates for that are available daily. Make sure that whatever AV software you have you update it frequently - preferably automatically. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wrote: Hi all I'm going to encourage a client to buy MS Office (prob 2003 from a box) so that he san see the edits I'm doing in Word from his manuscript (converted from Works). This will also let him read my schedules in Excel. 1 He already has Norton loaded on his Dell. I have read much on here about disabling the Norton Word Plug-in. Assuming that the rest of Norton is good, exactly how to I do this disabling? 2 Also, on my own laptop was some Norton stuff pre-loaded. The laptop keeps nagging me that I am vulnerable so click on the Norton, presumably to activate it. Is any payment involved? If not, how long does it last? Have posters found Nortons to be OK generally (apart from the plug-in)? And again, how exactly do I disable the Word plug-in? Thanks all. |
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