I sent an email with two Excel Attahments. The recipient received it and one
of the attachements had a virus. My email provider is MSN. I have Norton
Anti Virus on my computer and no virus has been detected on my computer. How
would the virus get in the spreadsheet attachment? I'm not sure if I am in
the right Discussion Group. Any help would be appreciated

The only way would be if the attachments you sent had a macro that ran when
the workbook was opened. If you don't have a macro in your workbook then
there cannot be any viruses.
If you set your macro security to medium under toolsmacrosecurity then
open this particular workbook you should get prompted to enable or disable
the macro. If you don't get that you don't have any macros and thus there
cannot be any virus.


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom



"SMK" wrote in message
...
I sent an email with two Excel Attahments. The recipient received it and
one
of the attachements had a virus. My email provider is MSN. I have Norton
Anti Virus on my computer and no virus has been detected on my computer.
How
would the virus get in the spreadsheet attachment? I'm not sure if I am in
the right Discussion Group. Any help would be appreciated

It's more likely that the workbook contained VBA code but not a virus, and
that the recipient's anti-virus software incorrectly identified your code as
a virus.

- Jon
-------
Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"SMK" wrote in message
...
I sent an email with two Excel Attahments. The recipient received it and
one
of the attachements had a virus. My email provider is MSN. I have Norton
Anti Virus on my computer and no virus has been detected on my computer.
How
would the virus get in the spreadsheet attachment? I'm not sure if I am in
the right Discussion Group. Any help would be appreciated

I do not know what a VBA code is. My spreadsheet is very basic. All I have
is information that I typed in each cell. No Macros or anything more
advanced than just typing in the cells.

"Jon Peltier" wrote:

It's more likely that the workbook contained VBA code but not a virus, and
that the recipient's anti-virus software incorrectly identified your code as
a virus.

- Jon
-------
Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
_______


"SMK" wrote in message
...
I sent an email with two Excel Attahments. The recipient received it and
one
of the attachements had a virus. My email provider is MSN. I have Norton
Anti Virus on my computer and no virus has been detected on my computer.
How
would the virus get in the spreadsheet attachment? I'm not sure if I am in
the right Discussion Group. Any help would be appreciated

Then ask the receiver to check his/her virus protection or have his/her IT
people to configure it since if you don't have any macros there can't be any
virus in an excel file


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom


"smk" wrote in message
...
I do not know what a VBA code is. My spreadsheet is very basic. All I have
is information that I typed in each cell. No Macros or anything more
advanced than just typing in the cells.

"Jon Peltier" wrote:

It's more likely that the workbook contained VBA code but not a virus,
and
that the recipient's anti-virus software incorrectly identified your code
as
a virus.

- Jon
-------
Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
_______


"SMK" wrote in message
...
I sent an email with two Excel Attahments. The recipient received it
and
one
of the attachements had a virus. My email provider is MSN. I have
Norton
Anti Virus on my computer and no virus has been detected on my
computer.
How
would the virus get in the spreadsheet attachment? I'm not sure if I am
in
the right Discussion Group. Any help would be appreciated