Open w/Blocker

[George W. Barrowcliff]

I had someone reliable send me two single page powerpoint presentations.

Shortly after I opened these two pages, my laptop was inundated with every
kind of adware known to man and jillions of copies of each.

Every time I run the Microsoft Beta Antispyware if finds 20-30 offenders. I
clean them off, run it again and maybe this time there are 5, run it again
maybe 7. It has rendered my laptop useless.

How can I open these two pages without using PPT so I can get the individual
pieces (photos and text). Is there maybe some other product?

Maybe I should install powerpoint on another spare pc with no internet
access, then after I get the compponents, reload windows. It seems that is
the only way around these nuisance adware products.

Thanks

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I had someone reliable send me two single page powerpoint presentations.

Shortly after I opened these two pages, my laptop was inundated with every
kind of adware known to man and jillions of copies of each.

Start PowerPoint, choose Tools, Macro, Security. Set macro security to High.

That will disable any macros that might be causeing problems.
Other than that, don't click on any network links (or disconnect the computer
from the network). Open the PPT and you should be fine.

You might also want to download AdAware from Lavasoft. It's free and does a
very nice job of cleaning up scumware. There are a few others like it and
sometimes it takes a few runs with several different programs to clean
everything out.

 

[Kathy J]

Use the Viewer - it ignores all of that kind of stuff. (Believe it or not, I
actually have realized that this is an advantage to the Viewer not running
code or anything else. I can tell novices to always run presentations
through the viewer if they receive them from email. Bad stuff won't run,
good stuff will.)

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