Opening file in Word get running virus scan

[TNVandy]

I have researched this problem with opening files in Word 2003 and it taking
up to a minute to open a file. It says "running virus scan". I don't have
Norton Antivius installed and I have also uninstalled EndNote. I've
uninstalled and reinstalled MS Office 2003 without any luck.

 

[Tony Jollans]

If it says "running virus scan" then that is probably what is happening.
There are other antivirus packages apart from Norton - which one do you
have? Scanning can be slow - it depends on the file being opened and the
spec of the machine you are running on and who knows what else.

 

[TNVandy]

I'm running Network Associates McAfee VirusScan. On McAfee I've even turned
off the On Access scanner option and Word is still slow. It is not slow
opening Word, but once I try and open a file (can be a file that only has the
word "Test") and can take 30sec to a minute to open and says "running virus
scan". It is a P4 2.4Ghz with 760MB RAM.