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How do I prevent a virus scan being run everytime I open a docume.
Word 2003 takes forever to open, and then when opening a document, a virus
scan is run that takes 5 minutes or so. How do I fix this problem, or at least disable the scan and make Word open faster. I also have Excel and PowerPoint, and but they both open relatively fast compared to Word. |
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How do I prevent a virus scan being run everytime I open a docume.
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" -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Russell Johnson wrote: Word 2003 takes forever to open, and then when opening a document, a virus scan is run that takes 5 minutes or so. How do I fix this problem, or at least disable the scan and make Word open faster. I also have Excel and PowerPoint, and but they both open relatively fast compared to Word. |
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How do I prevent a virus scan being run everytime I open a doc
I have the free version of AVG so I ran the command line, but Word still
takes forever to open. Do you have any idea why that is? Also I have Ad-Aware, does that need to be unregistered? Thanks for the help/ "Graham Mayor" wrote: 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" -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Russell Johnson wrote: Word 2003 takes forever to open, and then when opening a document, a virus scan is run that takes 5 minutes or so. How do I fix this problem, or at least disable the scan and make Word open faster. I also have Excel and PowerPoint, and but they both open relatively fast compared to Word. |
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How do I prevent a virus scan being run everytime I open a doc
Hi Russell,
Anti-spyware software might use the same mechanism to link itself into Word. You can try unregistering it, but I am not aware of Ad-Aware causing the issue you are describing. Do you have any old Word add-ins? Check your Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\Startup folder for any files with the extension .wll. EndNote 7 might be a good candidate btw. It is true that this message is generally triggered by an anti-virus program. However, Word 2003 (and 2007 as well) has a built-in feature macro security feature that runs a security check on legacy add-ins. The message "Running virus scan..." is misleadingly displayed as well for that check. If you have any legacy add-in in that folder, move it out of the folder and open Word again. If it opens fast now, you'll have to decide how important the add-in is to you, as there is no way to switch off this built-in macro security check. Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net "Russell Johnson" wrote in message : I have the free version of AVG so I ran the command line, but Word still takes forever to open. Do you have any idea why that is? Also I have Ad-Aware, does that need to be unregistered? Thanks for the help/ "Graham Mayor" wrote: 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" -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Russell Johnson wrote: Word 2003 takes forever to open, and then when opening a document, a virus scan is run that takes 5 minutes or so. How do I fix this problem, or at least disable the scan and make Word open faster. I also have Excel and PowerPoint, and but they both open relatively fast compared to Word. |
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How do I prevent a virus scan being run everytime I open a doc
Thanks for the help. I guess the unregistering helped, because both of my
problems have been solved. Thanks again Graham and Patrick. "Patrick Schmid" wrote: Hi Russell, Anti-spyware software might use the same mechanism to link itself into Word. You can try unregistering it, but I am not aware of Ad-Aware causing the issue you are describing. Do you have any old Word add-ins? Check your Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\Startup folder for any files with the extension .wll. EndNote 7 might be a good candidate btw. It is true that this message is generally triggered by an anti-virus program. However, Word 2003 (and 2007 as well) has a built-in feature macro security feature that runs a security check on legacy add-ins. The message "Running virus scan..." is misleadingly displayed as well for that check. If you have any legacy add-in in that folder, move it out of the folder and open Word again. If it opens fast now, you'll have to decide how important the add-in is to you, as there is no way to switch off this built-in macro security check. Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net "Russell Johnson" wrote in message : I have the free version of AVG so I ran the command line, but Word still takes forever to open. Do you have any idea why that is? Also I have Ad-Aware, does that need to be unregistered? Thanks for the help/ "Graham Mayor" wrote: 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" -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Russell Johnson wrote: Word 2003 takes forever to open, and then when opening a document, a virus scan is run that takes 5 minutes or so. How do I fix this problem, or at least disable the scan and make Word open faster. I also have Excel and PowerPoint, and but they both open relatively fast compared to Word. |
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How do I prevent a virus scan being run everytime I open a doc
Thank you SOOOO much. I've spent so long trying to get Word to open properly,
ran so many virus scans, and finally this is the solution! :-) "Graham Mayor" wrote: 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" -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Russell Johnson wrote: Word 2003 takes forever to open, and then when opening a document, a virus scan is run that takes 5 minutes or so. How do I fix this problem, or at least disable the scan and make Word open faster. I also have Excel and PowerPoint, and but they both open relatively fast compared to Word. |
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How do I prevent a virus scan being run everytime I open a doc
You are welcome
 -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Sapna wrote: Thank you SOOOO much. I've spent so long trying to get Word to open properly, ran so many virus scans, and finally this is the solution! :-) "Graham Mayor" wrote: 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" -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Russell Johnson wrote: Word 2003 takes forever to open, and then when opening a document, a virus scan is run that takes 5 minutes or so. How do I fix this problem, or at least disable the scan and make Word open faster. I also have Excel and PowerPoint, and but they both open relatively fast compared to Word. |
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How do I prevent a virus scan being run everytime I open a doc
Hi Patrick,
The solution has really worked!!!! I removed all the files with .wll extension from the path you had mentioned and it really worked. Thanks a lot... "Patrick Schmid" wrote: Hi Russell, Anti-spyware software might use the same mechanism to link itself into Word. You can try unregistering it, but I am not aware of Ad-Aware causing the issue you are describing. Do you have any old Word add-ins? Check your Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\Startup folder for any files with the extension .wll. EndNote 7 might be a good candidate btw. It is true that this message is generally triggered by an anti-virus program. However, Word 2003 (and 2007 as well) has a built-in feature macro security feature that runs a security check on legacy add-ins. The message "Running virus scan..." is misleadingly displayed as well for that check. If you have any legacy add-in in that folder, move it out of the folder and open Word again. If it opens fast now, you'll have to decide how important the add-in is to you, as there is no way to switch off this built-in macro security check. Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net "Russell Johnson" wrote in message : I have the free version of AVG so I ran the command line, but Word still takes forever to open. Do you have any idea why that is? Also I have Ad-Aware, does that need to be unregistered? Thanks for the help/ "Graham Mayor" wrote: 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" -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Russell Johnson wrote: Word 2003 takes forever to open, and then when opening a document, a virus scan is run that takes 5 minutes or so. How do I fix this problem, or at least disable the scan and make Word open faster. I also have Excel and PowerPoint, and but they both open relatively fast compared to Word. |
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