Graham Mayor
... helping to ease the lives of Microsoft Word users.
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Many people access the material from this web site daily. Most just take what they want and run. That's OK, provided they are not selling on the material as their own; however if your productivity gains from the material you have used, a donation from the money you have saved would help to ensure the continued availability of this resource. Click the appropriate button above to access PayPal.
Many to One Download
It appears that some Anti-Virus products are falsely reporting the Many to One zip file as potentially infected with a virus. Because it accesses both the registry and e-mail, some anti-virus products see this as suspect behaviour and block the download, variously reporting Malware or Trojan infection.
I could remove the e-mail functionality, and that should address the concerns of those AV products, but that would also cripple the functionality of the add-in, making the whole exercise pointless.
The main AV players don't find an issue with it – see Virus Total On-Line Check
I am not advocating that you take my word for it, that these warnings are false flags.
In the following illustration from
Virus Total
On-Line Check, you will see that on the 18th
April 2021, 1 product,
which I have never heard of (out of 87) saw the file as
malicious. The
main players in the AV industry find no issues.
I check regularly and other checks have shown largely
similar results. Sometimes the nature of the alleged 'threat'
changes as the AV software writers update their products, but
the outcome is invariably similar.
I am beginning to wonder if these products find 'problems' in
order to sell those products to deal with them.
Check out the file for yourself using the above link, or any other AV product of your choice, and make your own decision as to whether the file is safe to download and install.
Hopefully these warnings will become a thing of the past, however if you have concerns, please contact me via my contacts page.
Frankly this add-in is a victim of its
complexity and has been a nightmare to ensure that it works for
as many users as possible, with different Office and Windows
configurations to accommodate. The over-zealous virus checking
has been the last straw.
If you have a working version of this add-in, then there is no
necessity to update it. If however you do so, ensure that you
retain that working version so that you may revert if the latest
version does not work for you.
As Microsoft security gets ever more defensive, for good and valid reasons, depending on how your system is configured, you may find the macros in the add-in template blocked, with a pop-up message similar to that below.
Should this occur, close Word. Locate the add-in template using Windows File Explorer. Right click the filename and select 'Properties'. If the dialog displays the checkbox indicated below, ensure that box is checked.
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Click here to download the Many to One add-in