Excel Email Attachnent I sent had a virus?

[SMK]

I sent an email with two Excel Attahments. The recipient received it and one
of the attachements had a virus. My email provider is MSN. I have Norton
Anti Virus on my computer and no virus has been detected on my computer. How
would the virus get in the spreadsheet attachment? I'm not sure if I am in
the right Discussion Group. Any help would be appreciated

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

The only way would be if the attachments you sent had a macro that ran when
the workbook was opened. If you don't have a macro in your workbook then
there cannot be any viruses.
If you set your macro security to medium under tools>macro>security then
open this particular workbook you should get prompted to enable or disable
the macro. If you don't get that you don't have any macros and thus there
cannot be any virus.


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom

 

[Jon Peltier]

It's more likely that the workbook contained VBA code but not a virus, and
that the recipient's anti-virus software incorrectly identified your code as
a virus.

- Jon

 

[smk]

I do not know what a VBA code is. My spreadsheet is very basic. All I have
is information that I typed in each cell. No Macros or anything more
advanced than just typing in the cells.

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

Then ask the receiver to check his/her virus protection or have his/her IT
people to configure it since if you don't have any macros there can't be any
virus in an excel file


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom