Subscriber V.R. wrote to ask about Microsoft Word calling home…

Terry, I need your advise. How do I stop Word 2003 from wanting to access the internet everytime I launch the program? AVG pops ups asking if want to allow. It then takes about 10/15 seconds for Word to come up. I’ve googled and went to several sites, tried what they suggested but no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

I wrote back to V.R. to tell him that if he always wants to deny that communication, he should be able to tell AVG to deny the connection and remember that answer. It might also be in a configuration dialog box in AVG.

However, I don’t use AVG and so I can’t advise him on specifics of it.

Regarding making Word stop trying — good luck. I haven’t found a way to do it other than to control it with a good third party firewall (I use Sunbelt Personal Firewall ). See my review of SPF on my site.