word compromised

[Jane]

does anyone know anything about a virus affecting the ms word program?
I had mydoom and something else (a trojan) on my pc a couple of months ago,
i got rid of them but ever since my word program has been unusable: it
*looks* fine but absolutely nothing will type in to it, not even in to the
'help' search bar. I tried removing and reinstalling the program but it
didn't make any difference.
I'm a writer with writers block which is why I've done so very little about
it, i suppose, but i guess I *would* like to resolve it now, if possible.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Jane

 

[Duane Arnold]

does anyone know anything about a virus affecting the ms word program?
I had mydoom and something else (a trojan) on my pc a couple of months
ago, i got rid of them but ever since my word program has been
unusable: it *looks* fine but absolutely nothing will type in to it,
not even in to the 'help' search bar. I tried removing and
reinstalling the program but it didn't make any difference.
I'm a writer with writers block which is why I've done so very little
about it, i suppose, but i guess I *would* like to resolve it now, if
possible. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Jane

I did hear there was some worm or virus that attacked the Word document a
couple of years ago. Something about attacking the macros of a Word
document.

My suggestion is to uninstall Word and reinstall it to see if that doesn't
make it stable again.

Duane

 

[Dan Shackelford]

does anyone know anything about a virus affecting the ms word program? I
had mydoom and something else (a trojan) on my pc a couple of months ago,
i got rid of them but ever since my word program has been unusable: it
*looks* fine but absolutely nothing will type in to it, not even in to the
'help' search bar. I tried removing and reinstalling the program but it
didn't make any difference.
I'm a writer with writers block which is why I've done so very little
about it, i suppose, but i guess I *would* like to resolve it now, if
possible. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Jane

Yes, Word can carry viruses .. macro viruses. If you AV software is set to
check all files, esp .doc and .dot, does a scan show you to have an
infection or not?

But it might your normal.dot is corrupted too. While NOT running Word,
rename normal.dot to something like normal.bak. Re-launch Word and do
things work OK then?

 

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| On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 22:36:45 +0000, Jane wrote:
|
| > does anyone know anything about a virus affecting
the ms word program? I
| > had mydoom and something else (a trojan) on my pc a
couple of months ago,
| > i got rid of them but ever since my word program
has been unusable: it
| > *looks* fine but absolutely nothing will type in to
it, not even in to the
| > 'help' search bar. I tried removing and
reinstalling the program but it
| > didn't make any difference.
| > I'm a writer with writers block which is why I've
done so very little
| > about it, i suppose, but i guess I *would* like to
resolve it now, if
| > possible. Any suggestions?
| > Thanks,
| > Jane
|
| Yes, Word can carry viruses .. macro viruses. If you
AV software is set to
| check all files, esp .doc and .dot, does a scan show
you to have an
| infection or not?
|
| But it might your normal.dot is corrupted too. While
NOT running Word,
| rename normal.dot to something like normal.bak.
Re-launch Word and do
| things work OK then?
|
|
Normal.dot will be automatically recreated, and you may
have lost any macros you use, so use your Recycle bin
to recover them, carefully, and test each time to be
sure you didn't reactivate the problem. Personally, I
only read the files, re-create the macros from scratch,
and then empty the Recycle Bin.

If still no joy, do a "clean install" of the entire
Office suite if you hav eit, or at least Word. That
will kill it completely, as long as you use your
original CDs, not any copies yuoui made, which might
themselves be compromised.