January 17th, 2018, 11:24 PM
Hmm. Maybe it was your antivirus then.
You can also save documents as MS Word docs (.docx) from LibreOffice Writer, in case you need to send them to other people.
January 17th, 2018, 08:46 PM
You didn't tell us if you have 32 or 64-bit Windows. X86_64 would be for 64-bit Windows.
I just clicked on the downloads and I didn't get any virus warnings. What browser are you using? I'm using...
January 17th, 2018, 07:33 PM
Why are you surprised? Microsoft Office has always been a paid product.
Try LibreOffice.
https://www.libreoffice.org/
Moving to General & Business Software, since this is not an OS issue.