Word 2000 virus??

[+CalKat]

I don't think this problem is older than 2 weeks, but I'm not sure when it
started.

My Word docs are going crazy, even old ones. When I open them up, they are
much larger than they should be, they have tons of pages of nonsense at the
end, followed by a page of what looks like "format instructions". All of my
formatting is gone from the docs. Some won't open, because they are so
large, I had one that was over 360,000 kb, yet it should only have been
about 3,000 kb. I'm c/p'ing a sample of one of these incorrect docs below.

The program itself seems unstable and crashes often, usually with a warning
box, that I can send an error report to MS or not. The reasons for the
error are hard for me to understand.

My OS is XP home, and I haven't added any new software recently. I did have
a problem with a trojan (SAHagent.exe) a few weeks ago, but I'm positive I
got rid of it, and have run House Calls, SpyBot and AdAware, and appear to
be clean.

I don't use Word macs, and checked to make sure there weren't any. I'm
frustrated and worried, please help!

Kat

<start c/p of doc, this was a simple form, all the extraneous stuff
shouldn't be there, and you can see where even the font has changed.
Sometimes it shows my IP.)

I will respect myself by ____________________________________
_________________________________________________________



I will respect others by ___________________________________
_________________________________________________________



I will respect our (school) environment by ______________________
_________________________________________________________



I will respect ____________ by _____________________________
_________________________________________________________



I will respect ____________ by _____________________________
_________________________________________________________



I will respect ____________ by ______________________________
_________________________________________________________

Normal

Normal

Default Paragraph Font

Default Paragraph Font

Body Text

Body Text

kat mcg?C:\My Documents\Word 2000\Teaching\I will respect myself
by.docÿ??þ?þ?ü?ø???

Unknownÿ!

Times New Roman

Times New Roman

Symbol

Symbol

Comic Sans MS

Comic Sans MS

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~I will respect myself by
____________________________________________________________________________
_________________________

~I will respect myself by
____________________________________________________________________________
_________________________

kat mcg

kat mcg

kat mcg

kat mcg

I will respect myself by
____________________________________________________________________________
_________________________

kat mcg

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kat mcgrath

Microsoft Word 9.0

inhouse media

I will respect myself by
____________________________________________________________________________
_________________________

Root Entry

1Table

1Table

WordDocument

WordDocument

SummaryInformation

SummaryInformation

DocumentSummaryInformation

DocumentSummaryInformation

CompObj

CompObj

ObjectPool

ObjectPool

Microsoft Word Document

MSWordDoc

Word.Document.8

 

[RWN]

Not an expert, but;
the "formatting instructions" would indicate that your "File->Open",
"Files of Type" is set to "Recover text from any file"

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In the File Open dialog, change the "Files of type" setting from "Recover
Text from Any File" to "All Word Documents."

 

[+CalKat]

Whewwwwwww! Thank you SO much! I was trying not to panic, but ALL my docs
were messed up, and I was pretty nervous lol

The reason I changed that File/Open type, is I can't get Notepad to work
right (I'm a mess since that darn SAHagent grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr), and one site
I read suggested changing the file/open, but it didn't work, and I forgot to
change it back. Doh

Thank you again ;o))

Btw, how did you see that? I don't see anything about "files of type" in
what i pasted lol
I must be getting old!

Kat

 

[RWN]

Been there, done that:-(