"Requesting Virus Scan" message keeps appearing

[Terry]

I am running Windows 98SE and Microsoft Office 2002 and I have AVG Antivirus
free edition installed.
Every time I open an Excel or Word file, a message "Requesting Virus Scan"
appears at the bottom left corner and the file opens after a momentary
delay. How do I turn this off ? Tried reducing the Macro security levels but
that did not help.

 

[Anne Troy]

Office doesn't perform virus scans. Try checking the settings in AVG.
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~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Terry]

Tried turning off all scan settings in AVG - even disabled the product.
Problem continues.

 

[Anne Troy]

Okay. Everything I've found regarding this issue indicates that Norton
Antivirus is still running on your system and you need to turn off the
Office plugin.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329820/
Of course, I could be wrong, but if I am, I'm stumped.
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~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Terry]

Norton Antivirus was installed on the system several months ago before I
shifted to AVG. Do you think that remnants of NAV may still be causing this
problem ??

 

[Anne Troy]

Indeed!
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~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Guest]

You might want to consider keeping your Norton Virus scan.
Its there because of the number of virus that get in through macros in
both Word and Excel. If you try out a number of macros or download a
lot from the web its worth the aggravation of a few wasted minutes to
avoid a virus that will tie you up for a weekend trying to clean up
your system, as well as the loss of data.
But if you don't go out much and only work with inhouse macros and
data, it might not be worth the aggravation.

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[Word 2003 Virus Scanning STOP]

All Virus Scanning can be stopped: If your using Norton
Follow the below if you want to open documents much faster
Open Norton
Click on: Norton Internet Security
Click on: Options
Click on: Norton AntiVirus Options
Click on: Miscellanous
Click on: (Disable): Enable Office Plug-in

Hope this helps you out....
ted

 

[Don Guillett]

AVG resident shield properties