AVG6 & O2k/+: MACROS VIRUS SCANNER?
Does your Office 2000 suite (oir later) have the macros virus scanner installed a la your AVG6 anti-virus?
Mine didn't, but it seems to be now!
I was promted to check it after reading a back issue of
The Naked PC
Vol. 5 No. 03
"02. Evaluating Anti-virus Software for Ease of Use: Grisoft AVG 6.0 Professional Edition (by Lee Hudspeth)"
Although the evaluation is of AVG PRO, the section about OFFICE 2000 macros virus scanner installation pertains to a problem with the registration of a dll file also found in the AVG - FREE version, so I opted to look closer <bolds & underlines are my own>:
Quote:
* Scans Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2000 (and higher) documents before they are opened by the host Office application?
YES. Initially, Microsoft Office indicated that AVG was not using this API[. Here are the steps to check whether your anti-virus program supports Office's virus scanner API:
in the Office application select Tools, Macro, Security, click the "Security Level" tab and look at the text in the lower left corner of the dialog. If the anti-virus program does not support this API then the text reads, "No virus scanner installed." If it supports this API then the text reads, "Virus scanner(s) installed."
When I mentioned this to my PR contact, I was told that AVG does support the API, but that sometimes during installation the module AVGOFF2K.DLL doesn't get registered. The AVG program directory contains a batch file named AVGOFF2K.BAT that registers the plug-in to Office. The batch file is just a wrapper for Windows' built-in Regsvr32 (Register Server) tool, and
if the batch file doesn't work for you, do this:
click Start, choose Run, then enter this command line (first verify that your copy of the DLL is in the same folder as the example):
regsvr32 "c:\program files\grisoft\avg6\avgoff2k.dll"
and click OK. You should see a message box that reads,
"DllRegisterServer in c:\program files\grisoft\avg6\avgoff2k.dll succeeded."
When you restart Word (or Excel or PowerPoint) the Security dialog should show that a virus scanner is installed. My version of the command line omits the "/s" (silent) switch so you *can* see the message box result of the DLL registration process, and my version uses the DLL's fully-qualified filename to reduce the likelihood of Regsvr32 not finding the DLL.
My forum archive search on this issue came up blanks, so I hope this thread isn't redundant, but I felt it was worth the risk since so many of us use run AVG and OFFICE 2000 or later - hope it's useful!
