An engineer in the heating company that my company uses liked a job
scheduling spreadsheet that I had made at work in Excel 2002. I e-mailed it
to myself at home where I have XL97, customised it for his use and e-mailed
it to him but I had forgotten that I had signed the macros with a SelfCert
signature. When he tried to open it he got a warning message:
"The macros in this file do not match the digital signature. Only a macro
virus would cause this. Please scan for viruses and notify the publisher of
this document. Macros will be disabled"
I tried sending the modified sheet to myself at work and sure enough I got
the same warning. Removing the signature and reapplying it cures the
problem and I assumed that because XL97 does not support signing it had
somehow corrupted the signature. Nevertheless I scanned my home computer
with an uptodate McAfee anti-virus and the work computer and files on the
server with eTrust InoculateIT which all came up clean. However I cannot
find the above scenario on the internet, just sites saying that XL97 does
not support signing and you will not be able to open macros, (which I can
but just not run them as the waning message said).
Can anyone re-assure me that my assumption that this is just the consequence
of modifying a signed workbook in XL97 is right and not the work of a nasty.
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Regards,
Sandy
In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland
sandymann2@mailinator.com
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