Resolving Excel corruption caused due to Out-of-date antivirus
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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 Time: 12:45 AM
As a matter of fact, MS Excel is one of the most popular and widely used spreadsheet application programs. Across the globe, millions of users use Excel for creating spreadsheet programs.
However, just like any other data file, an Excel file is also not able to safeguard itself from error, damage, and corruption. A number of factors are responsible for corruption in Excel files. Some of them are as follows: unexpected shutdown, network errors, virus invasion, etc.
In case your Excel file is damaged or corrupt, you need to use the last, valid, and proper Excel file backup to restore your valuable data.
However, in case a proper and valid Excel file backup is just not available, you need to perform xls recovery.
You can perform free excel recovery using the Open and Repair utility or using a professional third party xls recovery tool.
Let’s consider a real life and practical working scenario wherein when you try to open an Excel file, you are unsuccessful in doing that rather get the below mentioned error message:
“Your Anti-Virus software has blocked the file you were trying to open. You should ensure your Anti-Virus software is fully up to date and try opening the file again. It is important to note that the blocked file may also contain a virus which your Anti-Virus software has not been able to remove. In this case you should treat the file with caution.”
Once the aforementioned error message appears, you are unable to access your Excel files.
Now that we have come to know the error message, let’s try to understand the cause behind the occurrence of the aforementioned error message.
There are three probable causes behind the occurrence of the above mentioned error message. They are as follows:
Either the reason behind the error is that your antivirus software has expired.
Or you are trying to open a virus invaded file
Or you are trying to open a corrupt Excel file.
Now that we have come to know the error message and the cause behind the occurrence of the aforementioned error message, let’s try to understand the resolution part.
In order to resolve the aforementioned error message, you need to take up the following measures:
First and foremost, you need to update the antivirus software and its corresponding signatures.
Secondly, if the file is affected by virus invasion, you need to restore your data from the last, valid, and proper backup. If however, a proper backup is just not available, then you need to perform xls recovery.
You can perform free excel recovery using the Open and Repair utility. If however, you are unable to repair your damaged and corrupt Excel file using the Open and Repair utility, then you need to perform xls recovery using a commercial Excel file recovery tool.
Kernel for Excel repair is a professional, brilliantly devised, comprehensive, as well as absolutely output driven tool that performs impeccable Excel repair. Kernel for Excel repair comes with easy to use features.
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