How can I turn off virus scan during line-counting macro?

[Mockingbirdbat]

I have to run a line-counting macro (for transcription invoicing -- built by
a company I trust) that, by itself, is rather huge and can take awhile to
complete. I'm on a new machine with a new version of Norton (the simple AV
program -- nothing fancy), and I'm also new to XP. I just ran my macro but
it was substantially slowed down by a function of Norton I can't seem to find
the settings for, either in Norton UI or in Word (2003). I went into Word,
in the macro security sections, highlighted the company who created the
macro, and chose "trust," but the scan still wants to run.

Does anybody know how to tell Norton to either not scan a particular macro
just the one time before you run it, or how to tell Norton that this macro is
always safe to run, and it should leave it alone?

Thanks very much,

--Kate

 

[Graham Mayor]

The virus scan message comes not from Word but from linked anti-virus
software. Checking of Word/Office documents can usually be deselected in the
AV program e.g. in Norton AV by turning off its Office Plug-in.

With some versions of the Norton product it may be necessary to unregister
the calling DLL by running the following command line from Windows > Start >
Run

regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton antivirus\officeav.dll"
or
regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton systemworks\norton
antivirus\officeav.dll"


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