How to disable virus scan in microsoft word

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Watch our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Joined May 8, Messages Hi friends Whenever Iam trying to open a word document from cd it automatically starts "Running virus scan" and takes some time for small files but for big sized files it is keeps on doing the virus scan and not oening the file.

How to disable the virus scan? Joined Mar 26, Messages 1, From Symantec's support pages. Start Norton AntiVirus. Click Options.

In the left pane, click Miscellaneous. In the right pane, under "How to keep Microsoft Office documents protected," check Enable Office plug-in. In the right pane, under "How to keep Microsoft Office documents protected," uncheck Enable Office plug-in.

By Andrew Tennyson. FZIP File. Running the virus scan feature on your computer is a RAM-intensive process. If your computer takes a long time to run the virus scan when opening Word files, upgrading your RAM can speed up the process.

Good Luck. Dale Find latest posts by Dale F Wiley. Not your question? Ask your question View similar questions. How do you prevent MS Word from requesting a virus scan? Word, "requesting virus scan" [ 2 Answers ] Hi, Running Word, Office , on Win XP, when we attempt to load a file from any disk, we get the hourglass icon, the Word message "Requesting Virus scan", and no progress from there.

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