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Every time I open anything in office 2000 I get down in the left hand corner “requesting virus scan”. I have Norton’s anti virus installed. I have done everything I can think of short of throwing the box out the window to get rid of this slow down. Help Please……

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This part of SR-1a and there is NOTHING you can do about it. It is part of the fix tha MS did to protect you from some of the email virus’s.

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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Hi Dave:
I have Office 2000 & SR1-a & don’t get this. Do you mean SR-2, which I deliberately didn’t install?

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It is in sr1a, I do NOT have SR -2 installed either, I listen to Woody. Once a file has been read and saved, you will not see this message. Most of the files that I get from another by the way of a email or down load I will see this message. I think it is in the lower LH corner of your MS Word window, in the status bar. But if you have the status bar turned off you may not see it.

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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Hi Dave:
I have the status bar turned on in Word 2000. Maybe it has something to do with the NAV settings. I have an old version, 4.something in NAV. But I’ve never had a slowdown in opening a document (except that macro disable warning, if there’s macros).

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Sorry, but it’s not part of SR-1a per se. That’s what I’m running but not with (shudder) Norton AV. I use Command (F-Prot) and never get a message unless there is actually a virus in the document, in which case Command won’t let me open it until it’s disinfected.

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Dave, Thanks for your reply… It realy is not that long to load and its better than having to mess with a virus. You see, I thought it was something that I was doing. Paranoia?

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Thanks for the feed back. Also I just remembered that I installed SR-1a and Norton’s 2001 at about the same time. It appears that I made a error thinking that this was with SR-1a.

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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A few seconds of protection is worth the wait. I have spent way to much time cleaning others computers because they never get virus’s. If this catches ONLY one virus it is worth the time.

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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I agree with Dave. That’s kind of drastic. I would want a virus scan every time I open a document. If NAV is too slow, maybe there are some settings that will make it faster, or maybe another Anti-virus program. Just my 2 cents.

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There’s a setting under Tools–>Macro–>Security for setting the level of security on macros, if that’s what you mean. In my installation, it says No Virus Scanner Installed, apparently because I don’t use the AV that comes with Office. My anti-virus has active protection enabled and refuses to let me open an infected document, period.

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