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Problems with Norton AntiVirus 2006 and ODBC Connections

Posted by Mark | Filed under Software

While I run Kubuntu as my pri­mary OS on all my home machines, my work machine has Win­dows XP on it.  Recently our IT dept installed Nor­ton AntiVirus 2006 on all our machines.  Some peo­ple had prob­lems with this imme­di­ately, while oth­ers (like myself) had not noticed any prob­lems.  Then today I tried to export some data out of Microsoft Access to a MySQL server via an ODBC con­nec­tion; only the win­dow to select which con­nec­tion to use never came up.  One of my co-workers had this prob­lem last week and it quickly esca­lated into some­thing of a night­mare caus­ing her to get stuck with the office’s loaner machine.  I did some googling and found a sim­pler solu­tion to the problem:

1. Double-click on Nor­ton AntiVirus in the systray.
2. Click on the Nor­ton AntiVirus tab.
3. Click on Settings.
4. Click on Virus And Spy­ware Pro­tec­tion Options (under Addi­tional Options)
5. Click on Mis­cel­la­neous under Advanced Options.
6. Uncheck Turn on scan­ning for Microsoft Office documents.
7. Click Ok.
8. Restart your computer.

And that’s it.  Sim­ply dis­abling Norton’s Office plu­gin fixed the prob­lem for me.

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