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"Running Virus Scan" message in word 2007
Every time I open Word 2007 I see a message "Running Virus Scan" in the lower
left corner. This is on an empty document before any entries are made. never happened with Word 2003. The only anti-virus software I have running is AVG for e-mails. |
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"Running Virus Scan" message in word 2007
The virus scan message comes not from Word but from linked anti-virus
software. Checking of Word/Office documents can usually be deselected in the AV program e.g. in Norton AV by turning off its Office Plug-in. 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" Office MVP Beth Melton recently reported her discovery that "If there are any WLL add-ins in the Startup folders they will trigger this message even if the user doesn't have any type of virus scanner enabled. Apparently, MS is using the virus scanning engine to check for macros in WLL files and as a result it triggers the message. Note other than checking for macros it isn't actually performing a virus scan....One add-in I know of that still uses a WLL is EndNote." So you might check your Word and Office Startup folders for ..wll files. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Neilbell wrote: Every time I open Word 2007 I see a message "Running Virus Scan" in the lower left corner. This is on an empty document before any entries are made. never happened with Word 2003. The only anti-virus software I have running is AVG for e-mails. |
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