Macros and Virus scanner

[Hari]

Hi,

I have Norton Antivirus at my workplace and it runs fine. But, when I open
tools -- macros -- security a window gets displayed with three radio buttons
High, Medium and low.

At the bottom there is a message"No Virus scan installed". How do I make
excel recognise that I do have Norton in my system.

I searched Tools--options but culdnt find anything.

Please guide me.

Regards,
Hari
India

 

[Dave Peterson]

There's a context sensitive help button on the top of that dialog. It's the ?
icon just to the left of the X button.

Click on that ? and then click on that "No Virus scan installed" label.

You'll see that your antivirus program has be "Office enabled" (whatever that
means???).

 

[Hari]

Hi Dave,

I went through what u suggested.

Then I went to programs and I opened Symantec Client security and it is the
latest version ( Confirmed from network folks).

Also, the configuration of File real time protection does have all files
selected and one of those is "xl?" which i believe includes xls, xlt etc.

The technology folks were not able to resolve this.

Please tell me if there is a way out of the same.(Im sorry if am asking
something not connected to excel as such..)

Regards,
Hari
India

 

[Dave Peterson]

I don't use Norton for Antivirus stuff. I'm not sure if it includes a feature
that can be recognized by Office.

Maybe a Norton user can chime in.

I searched google and found a hit that pointed to:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=282207
OFFXP: "No Virus Scanner Installed" Message Appears in Security
Dialog Box

You may want to review that with your network folks. (But I don't know if they
can do something different--maybe a trip to the Symantec site would be useful.)