Turn off "requsting virus scan"

[Bob Fitzgerald]

I may be wrong, but I believe that the default in Office XP is
to force Office docs to do a search for an installed virus
scanner, and this behavior is based on VBA. Does anyone have any
information on how to turn this "feature" off?

Thanks.

Bob

 

[Jonathan West]

Hi Bob,

If you are running Norton antivirus, go into the Options dialog, and find
the "Enable Office add-in" item, and uncheck it.

This will not in any way reduce your anti-virus protection, and will speed
up opening files.