virus on word document

[cody85]

I am trying to attach a paper that i have just written and then email it to myself. I signed onto my gmail and tried to send it and it said my attachment has a virus. How is that possible if i just wrote it??

 

[mkrishnan]

Did GMail tell you that it could have a virus or it definitely did? It is possible I guess for you to create a macro-virus-laden new document if your templates, normal.dot, etc, are infected with it.

It seems like recently there have been more than a few posts about macro viruses. I thought they were pretty much dead for the past six or seven years.... Are they back?

 

[cody85]

yeah they told me it had a virus, and i tried to send it from a different emial address and it did the same thing

 

[iSaint]

I, too, have had some problems sending Word docs from my Powerbook to my school XP machine via email. My ISP is seeing it as corrupted.

 

[angelwatt]

Maybe the recent MS Office update came with a virus? Wouldn't surprise me. Do you have any virus software that you can run on the file? CalmXav (http://www.clamxav.com/) is free AV software that you can install and check the file.

If you do find a virus let us know the name of it for reference sake.

 

[marki]

i am also having a problem sending word/excel attachments via my email.

i think i have a macro virus.

i started getting error messages every time i opened a word document which asked me if i wanted to enable or disable macros. this also happened with some of my excel files too.

i un-installed office and then re-installed it. i also dl'd the current updates for office and installed them onto my computer.

after doing all that it stopped asking about the macro's and now a different error pops up 'word could not fire event'

can anyone help me.. i have called Microsoft and Mac on numerous occasions and everything they have said to do hasn't help.

thanks

 

[marki]

also.. after i save my word documents now.. the actual word program closes down on its own.

 

[iSaint]

I'm going to run Trend Micro's House Call today to see what it finds. I'll post results.

 

[iSaint]

There were three java type files that were classified as viruses. I forgot to take a screenshot. I'm scanning again.

 

[marki]

now every time i type something into a cell on excel

a new error comes up 'cant find project or library'

can anyone explain what is going on & how to fix my problems..

thanks

 

[Cadence]

same problem encountered here. Suddenly cannot send my word docs via gmail due to a virus. It asks me to enable or disable the macros when I open the files, which it never did prior. Were any of you able to find this virus or find a fix?

 

[kuwisdelu]

Hmm does indeed sound like a macro virus, then. Could you try saving as rtf or some non-Office type document and see if that allows you to send it? I can't think of anything else for now. Good luck.