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Scan MS Word XP files
« on: December 16, 2003, 01:30:56 PM »
Hi guys :)
Can you tell me how to get microsoft office xp to scan word documents at start ?
Ive seen that the resident scanner scans files which are
used to start MS word xp like some dlls
But it does not scan a document
Earlier i had norton which would scan the document file for word xp
Word would show a msg at the bottom "requesting virus  scan"
But now i dont see that msg bfore opening a word document.
Am i unsafe with word docments?
Sorry for comparing Avast with Norton.Both are nice products.
Take care (of my system........ ;D)
ash. ;)


P.S. the emoticons dont insert where i place the cursor, and i have to copy them to the line i want .......please check that.

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Re:Scan MS Word XP files
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2003, 02:13:16 PM »
The DOC files are scanned on open. What makes you think they arent?

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Re:Scan MS Word XP files
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2003, 02:37:24 PM »

Word would show a msg at the bottom "requesting virus  scan"
But now i dont see that msg bfore opening a word document.


Thats why Vlk.

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Re:Scan MS Word XP files
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2003, 02:48:24 PM »
Word should say that ???
I guess it may be the case if the antivirus were a Word-plugin, addon or something like that.

avast! resident protection monitors the disk access directly - and whenever an application accesses an OLE document (no matter if it's Word, Excel, or if you view the file file using FAR, TotalCommander, or any other utility) - it's scanned (and if found infected, the access is denied).
So, Word doesn't know that the file is scanned; it's fully transparent for it. It would only find out if the document were infected; in this case, you'd probably get the error message "Cannot open document; access is denied" or something like that - avast! wouldn't let Word open it.

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Re:Scan MS Word XP files
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2003, 02:59:19 PM »
Thanks vlk,igor
if you say it scans the documents then i havent got any complaints.

please read P.S.  in 1st message.

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Re:Scan MS Word XP files
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2003, 03:10:33 PM »
I have also noticed several times that the smileys are inserted at the end of the message instead of at the cursor position, but I don't know if it's possible to fix - we didn't program the board code.
Maybe kubecj would have some details?  :)

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Re:Scan MS Word XP files
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2003, 06:24:36 PM »
Re: Emoticons - too few details. OS/Browser/jscrip settings/proxy/web filter/etc. used details are needed. For me, with fully patched M$IE 6 using WebWasher it works okay. With Mozilla 1.5 with some disabled features it works okay.

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Re:Scan MS Word XP files
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2003, 06:49:20 PM »
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I have also noticed several times that the smileys are inserted at the end of the message instead of at the cursor position, but I don't know if it's possible to fix - we didn't program the board code.

For :o me :P they :-* have ::) always :-[ worked ;D fine 8)
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Re:Scan MS Word XP files
« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2003, 07:03:48 PM »
Right now, I'm trying with Win98/Opera 7.23/JS enabled/no proxy/old AtGuard firewall and it doesn't work. At work, I have Win2000 SP3/IE 6 with the latest cumulative update/JS enabled/proxy/outpost and it doesn't work either.

When I type something, then click back into the message I already wrote and press the smiley icon, the characters are appended at the end of the text, not at the current cursor position.

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Re:Scan MS Word XP files
« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2003, 09:33:42 PM »
When I type something, then click back into the message I already wrote and press the smiley icon, the characters are appended at the end of the text, not at the current cursor position.

Sorry  :'( Igor  :-\, but  ;D, like Vlk  ;), everything  8) works  :o fine  :P at IE 6.0 SP1  :) and XP PRO SP1  :D
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Re:Scan MS Word XP files
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2003, 09:16:40 AM »
im also using opera 7.23 jre 1.4  enabled but on win xp pro with zonealarm pro. :)

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Re:Scan MS Word XP files
« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2003, 09:44:26 AM »
OK, I was probably wrong about IE... it would be just an Opera problem (no surprise, if it uses JavaScript; Opera doesn't really support JavaScript, unfortunatelly).

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Re:Scan MS Word XP files
« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2003, 09:59:32 AM »
I use Netscape 7.1 and I have the same problem as Igor or ash.

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Re:Scan MS Word XP files
« Reply #13 on: December 26, 2003, 03:41:25 PM »
When I type something, then click back into the message I already wrote and press the smiley icon, the characters are appended at the end of the text, not at the current cursor position.

Sorry  :'( Igor  :-\, but  ;D, like Vlk  ;), everything  8) works  :o fine  :P at IE 6.0 SP1  :) and XP PRO SP1  :D

Very sad Igor...
The smiles does not work (at last, not all the time) with MyIE2, for example, right now...

Does anybody know the solution?
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Re:Scan MS Word XP files
« Reply #14 on: December 27, 2003, 12:09:01 PM »
I use Netscape 7.1 and I have the same problem as Igor or ash.

Could you solve your trouble?
Is it related to JavaScript or Windows Script?
Any solution for MyIE2 browser?
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