Re: Requesting Virus Scan???

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 02/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:06:45 -0500

Word doesn't something else is !

What Anti Virus software do you have installed ?

In addition:
If you post to UseNet with your TRUE, not a munged, email address then you have invited the
Swen Internet worm [aka; W32/Gibe-F] to visit you.

The Swen is news spelled backwards. The reason it is called this is because the Swen worm
harvests email addresses from UseNet News Groups. It has an engine that allows it to post
itself to UseNet News Groups as well as it has its own email engine. From the list of
email addresses that it has harvested, it will then email itself to those addresses.

Dave

"Sonny" <sgarrett@baxterbulletin.com> wrote in message
news:OwDNZfX8DHA.2560@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
| I am using Word 2002 on a Gateway 500S computer with two hard drives: "c"
| drive is primary, and "d" drive is storage (for my word files). When I ask
| Word to open a file on the "d" drive, it takes, sometimes, 20 to 30 seconds
| to open because, a small toolbar window informs me, the program is
| "requesting a virus scan."
|
| I don't have time to wait for a virus scan every time I open a file . . .
| which may be a hundred or more times a day. I went to Word's TOOLS . . .
| OPTIONS . . . SECURITY, and unchecked everything I could. The program (or
| some program) continues to "request virus scan" delaying my work.
|
| What is this about? Why does WORD need to scan my existing files? How do I
| eliminate this pesky scan?
|
| Thanks in advance,
|
| Sonny
|
|

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