If you’re running Microsoft Office 2007 beta and Norton Antivirus 2007 you’ll find that you get some scary warnings whenever you open an Excel document (and some other Office documents).
“The file cannot be opened because your virus scanner has detected a problem with the file.”

The reason is that Norton Antivirus doesn’t yet work with new Office. The fix for this is to turn off Norton’s Office document scanner.

Open Norton Protection Center by double clicking on its icon near the bottom right of the screen – you’ll find this in or near the system tray. Click on the Norton Antivirus tab at the top. (If you’re running Norton Internet Security click on that tab instead.)

Under Settings, click on Auto Protect. (You may need to first click Open to open out this section.) Under Auto-Protect click the Configure button.

Click on the Miscellaneous link (bottom left) and uncheck the “Turn on scanning for Microsoft Office documents” box.

Now when you open Office documents it won’t give the virus warnings. Hopefully Symantec will fix this one soon so that it can be switched back on.

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