remove virus warnings on cd presentations

[Guest]

I am currently creating a manual for work in powerpoint and have put it onto
a cd. When testing the cd i noticed that every link on the contents page
(which takes you to another document) comes up with a virus warning saying
"some hyperlinks may contain a virus or be harmful to your computer, do you
want to open this hyperlink?" I know exactly where all these documents are
from and dont want the anti-virus warning as it is really annoying after a
while and will just waste time! does anyone know how i can change the
settings to get rid of it? please help!!

 

[Echo S]

I am currently creating a manual for work in powerpoint and have put
it onto a cd. When testing the cd i noticed that every link on the
contents page (which takes you to another document) comes up with a
virus warning saying "some hyperlinks may contain a virus or be
harmful to your computer, do you want to open this hyperlink?" I
know exactly where all these documents are from and dont want the
anti-virus warning as it is really annoying after a while and will
just waste time! does anyone know how i can change the settings to
get rid of it? please help!!

Yeah, this is the kind of thing Microsoft lawyers do to earn their keep.

Chirag's created a utility to remove this warning message, but it must be
installed on any computer you'll be using to view the presentation.
Otherwise you'll still see the warning message.

http://officeone.mvps.org/download/hyperlink_warning.html

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am currently creating a manual for work in powerpoint and have put it onto
a cd. When testing the cd i noticed that every link on the contents page
(which takes you to another document) comes up with a virus warning saying
"some hyperlinks may contain a virus or be harmful to your computer, do you
want to open this hyperlink?" I know exactly where all these documents are
from and dont want the anti-virus warning as it is really annoying after a
while and will just waste time! does anyone know how i can change the
settings to get rid of it? please help!!

What Echo said.

Or convert the contents page to HTML and use that instead.

 

[Guest]

Thanks! but without meaning to sound totally stupid, how do i do that, and
will it affect any of the presentation that i am trying to create?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks! but without meaning to sound totally stupid, how do i do that, and
will it affect any of the presentation that i am trying to create?

There are several ways of doing it.

If the only problem is the table of contents, you could do that entirely
independent of PPT as a plain HTML file (then autorun that instead of the
powerpoint presentation).

Links on that page could point to (and open) your various PPT/PPS and other
documents.

Other than removing the table of contents from your current presentation and
possibly some changes to the autorun.inf file, I don't think there'd have to be
lots of changes at all.

Certainly I'd test it first with a sample toc.html file to make sure you don't run
into other problems ... ever the optimist, y'see?