virus warnings using the Viewer?!!

[Geoff Cox]

Hello,

I am creating a CD of PowerPoint presentations usin the Package for CD
option in PowerPoint 2003.

In 2 situations the user gets a warning about possible viruses.

1. when about to run the MS exe prog to exit from PowerPoint Viewer

2. when selecting a hyperlink in a ppt file to a Word doc, on the CD

This seems crazy - surely it is my responsibiliy to check the CD for
viruses before making it available to users?

In addtion I can warn users to run their own check on the CD but the
last thing I want is to have these MS warnings cropping up whilst the
user is running the ppt presentations!

Can I stop these warnings? NB using the Viewer.

Cheers

Geoff

 

[John Wilson]

Sorry but I dont think you can in the viewer. Security gone mad maybe! I'm
involved in Outdoor Education too and have to deal with "risk assessment gone
mad" we call it Compulsive Risk Assessment Psychosis"- I think it has an
acronym!
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Did that answer the question / help?
_____________________________
John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist
http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html

 

[Geoff Cox]

Sorry but I dont think you can in the viewer. Security gone mad maybe! I'm
involved in Outdoor Education too and have to deal with "risk assessment gone
mad" we call it Compulsive Risk Assessment Psychosis"- I think it has an
acronym!

too true!

Cheers

Geoff

 

[Austin Myers]

Hello,

I am creating a CD of PowerPoint presentations usin the Package for CD
option in PowerPoint 2003.

In 2 situations the user gets a warning about possible viruses.

1. when about to run the MS exe prog to exit from PowerPoint Viewer

2. when selecting a hyperlink in a ppt file to a Word doc, on the CD

This seems crazy - surely it is my responsibiliy to check the CD for
viruses before making it available to users?

Ah, but what if you aren't a nice guy? What if your a hacker sending out
presentations with a little something "special" to your competition?

In addtion I can warn users to run their own check on the CD but the
last thing I want is to have these MS warnings cropping up whilst the
user is running the ppt presentations!

Not really doable is it? Yes they could scan for known viri, but lets say
you are doing something that writes to the disk or registry. Is that you
just saving a file, or is that a hacker formatting a hard drive? A virus
scanner can't tell...

Can I stop these warnings? NB using the Viewer.

Nope

 

[Geoff Cox]

Ah, but what if you aren't a nice guy? What if your a hacker sending out
presentations with a little something "special" to your competition?



Not really doable is it? Yes they could scan for known viri, but lets say
you are doing something that writes to the disk or registry. Is that you
just saving a file, or is that a hacker formatting a hard drive? A virus
scanner can't tell...

Austin,

I see that but what is a user supposed to do - select no and not be
able to use something they have paid for?!

Geoff

 

[Austin Myers]

Austin,

I see that but what is a user supposed to do - select no and not be
able to use something they have paid for?!

That of course is up to them. The problem obviously is that the end
users machine has no ability to tell the difference between running code vs
bad code, it's all just code. The only remaining alternative is to ask the
end user if they trust it enough to give it a go ahead. If there was
another alternative we could be very, very wealthy from selling it.