An engineer in the heating company that my company uses liked a job
scheduling spreadsheet that I had made at work in Excel 2002. I e-mailed it
to myself at home where I have XL97, customised it for his use and e-mailed
it to him but I had forgotten that I had signed the macros with a SelfCert
signature. When he tried to open it he got a warning message:

"The macros in this file do not match the digital signature. Only a macro
virus would cause this. Please scan for viruses and notify the publisher of
this document. Macros will be disabled"

I tried sending the modified sheet to myself at work and sure enough I got
the same warning. Removing the signature and reapplying it cures the
problem and I assumed that because XL97 does not support signing it had
somehow corrupted the signature. Nevertheless I scanned my home computer
with an uptodate McAfee anti-virus and the work computer and files on the
server with eTrust InoculateIT which all came up clean. However I cannot
find the above scenario on the internet, just sites saying that XL97 does
not support signing and you will not be able to open macros, (which I can
but just not run them as the waning message said).

Can anyone re-assure me that my assumption that this is just the consequence
of modifying a signed workbook in XL97 is right and not the work of a nasty.


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Sandy
In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland

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I don't know for sure, but I would test my system again in a couple of days
with the most up-to-date virus scanner. If nothing found, your good to go...

"Sandy Mann" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> An engineer in the heating company that my company uses liked a job
> scheduling spreadsheet that I had made at work in Excel 2002. I e-mailed
> it to myself at home where I have XL97, customised it for his use and
> e-mailed it to him but I had forgotten that I had signed the macros with a
> SelfCert signature. When he tried to open it he got a warning message:
>
> "The macros in this file do not match the digital signature. Only a macro
> virus would cause this. Please scan for viruses and notify the publisher
> of this document. Macros will be disabled"
>
> I tried sending the modified sheet to myself at work and sure enough I got
> the same warning. Removing the signature and reapplying it cures the
> problem and I assumed that because XL97 does not support signing it had
> somehow corrupted the signature. Nevertheless I scanned my home computer
> with an uptodate McAfee anti-virus and the work computer and files on the
> server with eTrust InoculateIT which all came up clean. However I cannot
> find the above scenario on the internet, just sites saying that XL97 does
> not support signing and you will not be able to open macros, (which I can
> but just not run them as the waning message said).
>
> Can anyone re-assure me that my assumption that this is just the
> consequence of modifying a signed workbook in XL97 is right and not the
> work of a nasty.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
>
> Sandy
> In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland
>
> (E-Mail Removed)
> (E-Mail Removed) with @tiscali.co.uk
>
>
>

"Tieske" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I don't know for sure, but I would test my system again in a couple of days
>with the most up-to-date virus scanner. If nothing found, your good to
>go...
>

Thank you for your time Tieske.

Yes, I run a full system virus check every week as a mater of course. I
tried sending another, unrelated, spreadsheet to my self and back again and
it had the same warning.

Personally I think that it is Bill Gates way of telling me that it is time
that I upgraded <g>

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Regards

Sandy
In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland

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