Thank you for your response I did disable the anti-virus software although
the component Resident shield stays running (no way to turn that off without
uninstalling) but i did and the scanning stopped. So now I decided to try to
turn it off in the program and nope i am stuck with it so i guess when the
subscription is up on my anti-virus I will look for one with better control
over what is scanned and what is not.....

Thank you for your help
Ken

"David Biddulph" wrote:

Excel does not have a virus scan facility. If you have a virus scan
running, it must be virus scanning software. Either you've not successfully
disabled it, or you have another AV package of which you were not aware.
You may be able to see from Windows Task Manager which program is running.
If all else fails, uninstall your AV package (but stay disconnected from
sources of infection while you do so).
--
David Biddulph

"Ken in Indiana" wrote in message
...
No it is not my A.V. that is requesting the scan I disabled the Anti-virus
software and I still have the Running virus scan everytime I open the
excel
file. I am developing a vb.net program that saves the values created in
the
app to an .xlsx file. What I want is to not have the virus scan run
everytime
I test it on that file.

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

It is your AV application that is requesting the scan.

Somewhere in its configuration should be a dialog where you can
disable/enable
scans for particular file types.

Look for where you can set "exclusions" or similar.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:58:09 -0800, Ken in Indiana <Ken in
wrote:

I was wondering if there was a way to stop the virus scan from running
everytime i open a xlsx file? Is this an Excel thing or is my virus
protection doing this as i have not set it to do this. If it is possible
in
Excel I only want it to be off for the documents I choose.

Thank you in advance
Ken