How to stop virus scanning

T

Tom

Whenever a program in MS Office 2003 e.g. Excel or Word is run, or on each
opening of their documents, my computer carries out a virus scan. This is
wasting a lot of my time in a day. How can I stop this scanning going on as
I already have Norton Antivirus and Zone Alarm installed?


TIA
Tom
 
G

Guest

You need to switch-off scanning in your anti-virus software, not Office. For
example in Norton anti-virus 2006:

Options > Other > Miscellaneous > and clear the Office plugin checkbox.
 
G

Gord Dibben

MS Office/Excel doesn't scan for viruses.

It is Norton that is doing the scanning.

Open the preferences in Norton and tell Norton what to exclude from scanning.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
 

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