NIS 2011 and Office 2003

Hello,

 

My wife has been running NIS 2011 for a little over a year now on her computer.  At first everything was running great, but in the last few months she noticed that Office 2003 applications were gradually taking a very long time to launch and open documents.  With no exaggeration, it sometimes takes as long as 5+ minutes to start Word or open a Word document. After searching for solutions on the net, a number of suggestions were that Norton was causing the long launch/opening of Office applications/documents. I decided to disable NIS’s Microsoft Office Automatic Scan option. 

 

The Office applications/documents now launch/open in seconds. 

 

I would like to know if there is a solution for this problem, otherwise I’ll have to leave the Office scanner disengaged, as (to my understanding) it is a redundant layer of protection anyway.

 

Thanks,

 

Amepro