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.
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danny wrote:
> When I load a file to read or work with word or excel it takes
> forever (1 to 2 minutes)to load 4 page file and I noticed at the
> bottom of the screen that virusscan is scanning the file even though
> I don't have norton or macafee virusscan program.
> How do I get rid of the virusscan?
>
> Any suggestions...
>
> Danny
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