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[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

 

[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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