David Walker

StephenB <sboots@xxxxxx> wrote in
news:avcpn317h9r0crut09u1qk43foj8grvk6n@xxxxxx:
I called OneCare Support, and they said sure, OneCare supports the
Microsoft Antivirus API.

However, that's not all that's required in order to use a macro in an
encrypted Office 2007 file. OneCare, unlike Symantec and McAfee's
offerings, doesn't support the method that Office 2007 uses to stream the
content of a macro to the antivirus program to be checked for viruses.

I got this last bit of info after opening a $255 support case with the
Office team, and letting them work with the OneCare programmers.

SO, if you're using OneCare, and you encrypt an Excel file (or a Word
file), and that file has macros, Office 2007 will disable the macros ...
there's no user-interface method to enable the macros. You can, however,
make a registry hack that tells Office to not bother checking macros in
encrypted files.

I'm really surprised that OneCare is a step back from the rest of the
antivirus industry here.

I was a beta tester for OneCare 2.0, and I have now bought the product,
and I generally like it (and I'll probably stay with it).

Interesting.

According to the guy who worked the case for me from the Office 2007
team, besides refunding my money, they will update the existing KB
article that refers to antivirus programs supporting the Microsoft
Antivirus API, and include the fact that there's more to it than that to
get macros in encrypted files usable by Office 2007.

Also, they might create a separate KB article that says that OneCare
can't deal with macros inside encrypted Office 2007 files.

David Walker