Norton scanning Word files....stop it?

[wonderer]

Just installed Nortaon AV Scan 2004...
  How can I turn off the scan on my Word files?  Every time I go to open a file, I have to wait for it to scan first.
What a pain?  Is this necessary???

Thanks.

[dl65]

wonderer.....I'm not so sure thats a great idea.....but if you must ...open Norton and click on options...then click miscellaneous.....and remove the tick from ....enable office plugin.  
I think that will do it .

dl65

[wondere]

Thanks for your reply.
So, you don't think we should take it off?  

What is the risk on Word files?   I don't use it much...just copy and paste text from the Internet onto Wordpad first and then Word. (to clean up format, etc.)

[Raptor]

It may scan for harmful macros. Macros should be disabeled from within Word, but additional security doesn't hurt.