When I open a word document up, the entire document is over written by 2's.
What is the deal and how do I stop it?

Re: Documents are being erased by 2's when opened by Jean-Guy

Jean-Guy
Tue Sep 12 19:21:37 CDT 2006

Wendy was telling us:
Wendy nous racontait que :

> When I open a word document up, the entire document is over written
> by 2's. What is the deal and how do I stop it?

Looks like a virus.
Do you have Antivirus software?

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Re: Documents are being erased by 2's when opened by Wendy

Wendy
Tue Sep 12 19:31:01 CDT 2006

I run AVG... This is on a clients computer and it just keeps over riding
anything that was in the previously written document that was just opened
into 2's. Before that is was the monitor display flipped upside down. That
one was fun to fix... this one is proving more of a challenge.

"Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:

> Wendy was telling us:
> Wendy nous racontait que :
>
> > When I open a word document up, the entire document is over written
> > by 2's. What is the deal and how do I stop it?
>
> Looks like a virus.
> Do you have Antivirus software?
>
> --
> Salut!
> _______________________________________
> Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
> jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO
> Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org
>
>
>

Re: Documents are being erased by 2's when opened by Graham

Graham
Tue Sep 12 23:42:57 CDT 2006

You could start by running an on-line virus check - then see
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm

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Wendy wrote:
> I run AVG... This is on a clients computer and it just keeps over
> riding anything that was in the previously written document that was
> just opened into 2's. Before that is was the monitor display flipped
> upside down. That one was fun to fix... this one is proving more of
> a challenge.
>
> "Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:
>
>> Wendy was telling us:
>> Wendy nous racontait que :
>>
>>> When I open a word document up, the entire document is over written
>>> by 2's. What is the deal and how do I stop it?
>>
>> Looks like a virus.
>> Do you have Antivirus software?
>>
>> --
>> Salut!
>> _______________________________________
>> Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
>> jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO
>> Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org



Re: Documents are being erased by 2's when opened by Ed

Ed
Wed Sep 13 12:32:25 CDT 2006

It almost sounds like you've got a prankster in the building. I don't know
that turning the monitor display upside down and overwriting a Word doc with
2s are normal malware activities - I would think more along the lines of
overwriting registries, stealing passwords, or deleting files.

Ed

"Graham Mayor" <gmayor@REMOVETHISmvps.org> wrote in message
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> You could start by running an on-line virus check - then see
> http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then
> http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm
>
> --
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> Graham Mayor - Word MVP
>
> My web site www.gmayor.com
> Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
>
>
> Wendy wrote:
>> I run AVG... This is on a clients computer and it just keeps over
>> riding anything that was in the previously written document that was
>> just opened into 2's. Before that is was the monitor display flipped
>> upside down. That one was fun to fix... this one is proving more of
>> a challenge.
>>
>> "Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:
>>
>>> Wendy was telling us:
>>> Wendy nous racontait que :
>>>
>>>> When I open a word document up, the entire document is over written
>>>> by 2's. What is the deal and how do I stop it?
>>>
>>> Looks like a virus.
>>> Do you have Antivirus software?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Salut!
>>> _______________________________________
>>> Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
>>> jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO
>>> Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org
>
>