Re: Norton Anti-Virus says my office 2007 word docs have a VIRUS
- From: "Graham Mayor" <gmayor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 07:44:16 +0300
While personally I think that with Norton AV the cure is worse than the
problem, and I wouldn't have it anywhere near any of my PCs, this issue has
nothing to do with Word but is a false reading by the AV software. Until
Norton wakes up or you get rid of it you are stuck with it.
However, it appears that you are opening the documents directly from the
e-mail attachment instead of saving to the hard drive. This is more bad
practice and Microsoft's security has been deterring it (no matter what the
e-mail application). You'll get rid of the problem entirely if you zip the
files before e-mailing them.
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Linnea wrote:
Hi,
nix, no viruses here. I went through it with NMicrosoft themselves
and their live.safety site. After a heavy duty everything scan,
nothing turned up. (I use AVG free, windows defender and firewall and
regular spybot checks). It turns out that Word 2007 saves documents
with the file extension .docx instead of the previous .doc and Yahoo
mail's standard Norton Antivirus flags the document. If I save the
document as a 98-2003 Word document, then there is no problem with
sending it as an email attachment - Norton doesn't flag it. Given the
love-fest between Microsoft's hotmail and Yahoo I don¨t imagine this
snag will go away anytime soon.
cheers
Linnea wrote:
I am not able to open any documents that I send, at least with
Yahoo, because Norton Anti-Virus says they are infected. I have not
yet tried to send documents to email addresses outside Yahoo, but
then since most of my and my colleagues email is via Yahoo, I have
a big problem with this. Can anyone help?
Help with what? You have to remove the virus. It's probably a
macro virus; go thru and remove macros one at a time until it goes
away, the delete that one and put the rest back if you think you
need them.
Pop`
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