Disabling Virus Scan?

[Uncle Joe]

Microsoft Windows XP (Home)
Microsoft Word 2003 SP2

Every time I launch a Word Document,
or choose File > New to create a
new Word document, Word runs a
virus scan.

I have a reasonably fast 1.6 GHz PC
with 1GB of RAM. The virus scan
takes over a minute for a new doc.
This makes no sense since the new
doc is empty. What's to scan?.

Don't understand which virus scan is
being run. Disabled Windows antivirus
scan and Windows Firewall. Am
using Norton Internet Security 2005
for firewall/virus protection.

How can I turn off this automatic
virus scanning feature. Thank you.

 

[Dian D. Chapman, MVP]

Maybe you have the Norton Office addin turned on? See this TechTrax
article for some info. Granted, it's about a different version, but
the info and screen shots might help.

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=109

Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant
Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 03:37:24 -0400, "Uncle Joe" <Uncle

 

[Uncle Joe]

Thanks, Dian.

Followed the advice in the links you provided and
Norton Office plug-in was enabled! I had disabled
it months ago because of performance and
comparability issues but somehow, it was re-enabled.
Perhaps one of the many Live Update passes I run
reset the plug-in. The Norton Office plug-in is a
terrible piece of software, as is Symantec's CCAPP.EXE.
The latter often consumes 95-98% of my system
resources. One can't disable it without rendering
the entire package dysfunctional.

 

[BillW50]

I too have the same problem on more than one computer. Although I use
AVG free edition. I'll scope out some of the settings to see if it
helps. I thought for sure I disabled the AVG altogether once, and that
didn't make any difference. All of the computers I currently have never
had any other anti-virus checkers on them.

______________________________________________
Bill (using a Toshiba 2595XDVD & Windows 2000)
-- written and edited within Word 2000

 

[BillW50]

I believe I have found the solution at:

http://www.computing.net/office/wwwboard/forum/4480.html

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\avgoff2k.dll"

It's faster and it doesn't say "requesting virus scan" anymore.

______________________________________________
Bill (using a Toshiba 2595XDVD & Windows 2000)
-- written and edited within Word 2000

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Thanks for the feedback.