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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / August 2006virus warnings using the Viewer?!!
Hello, I am creating a CD of PowerPoint presentations usin the Package for CD option in PowerPoint 2003. In 2 situations the user gets a warning about possible viruses. 1. when about to run the MS exe prog to exit from PowerPoint Viewer 2. when selecting a hyperlink in a ppt file to a Word doc, on the CD This seems crazy - surely it is my responsibiliy to check the CD for viruses before making it available to users? In addtion I can warn users to run their own check on the CD but the last thing I want is to have these MS warnings cropping up whilst the user is running the ppt presentations! Can I stop these warnings? NB using the Viewer. Cheers Geoff Sorry but I dont think you can in the viewer. Security gone mad maybe! I'm involved in Outdoor Education too and have to deal with "risk assessment gone mad" we call it Compulsive Risk Assessment Psychosis"- I think it has an acronym!  SignatureDid that answer the question / help? _____________________________ John Wilson Microsoft Certified Office Specialist http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Geoff >Sorry but I dont think you can in the viewer. Security gone mad maybe! I'm >involved in Outdoor Education too and have to deal with "risk assessment gone >mad" we call it Compulsive Risk Assessment Psychosis"- I think it has an >acronym! too true! Cheers Geoff > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > This seems crazy - surely it is my responsibiliy to check the CD for > viruses before making it available to users? Ah, but what if you aren't a nice guy? What if your a hacker sending out presentations with a little something "special" to your competition? > In addtion I can warn users to run their own check on the CD but the > last thing I want is to have these MS warnings cropping up whilst the > user is running the ppt presentations! Not really doable is it? Yes they could scan for known viri, but lets say you are doing something that writes to the disk or registry. Is that you just saving a file, or is that a hacker formatting a hard drive? A virus scanner can't tell... > Can I stop these warnings? NB using the Viewer. Nope >> Hello, >> [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >just saving a file, or is that a hacker formatting a hard drive? A virus >scanner can't tell... Austin, I see that but what is a user supposed to do - select no and not be able to use something they have paid for?! Geoff >> Can I stop these warnings? NB using the Viewer. > >Nope >>> Hello, >>> [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > I see that but what is a user supposed to do - select no and not be > able to use something they have paid for?! That of course is up to them. :-) The problem obviously is that the end users machine has no ability to tell the difference between running code vs bad code, it's all just code. The only remaining alternative is to ask the end user if they trust it enough to give it a go ahead. If there was another alternative we could be very, very wealthy from selling it.
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