How do I prevent a virus scan being run everytime I open a docume.

[Guest]

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.

 

[Graham Mayor]

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"

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[Graham Mayor]

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"

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My web site www.gmayor.com

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[Guest]

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/

 

[Guest]

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/

 

[Patrick Schmid]

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

 

[Patrick Schmid]

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

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the help. I guess the unregistering helped, because both of my
problems have been solved. Thanks again Graham and Patrick.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the help. I guess the unregistering helped, because both of my
problems have been solved. Thanks again Graham and Patrick.

 

[Guest]

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]

You are welcome

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[Solomon]

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...