[Solved] swriter.exe deleted by antivirus, help?
[Solved] swriter.exe deleted by antivirus, help?
Hi all, my antivirus picked up swriter.exe as a virus and deleted it. Since restarting my computer, it's not in the virus vault and OpenOffice won't run without it (obviously). Do I need to do a full reinstall or is there a way to just get that back. Sorry I'm not super tech savvy, be gentle with me.
Last edited by Oriboros on Tue May 21, 2019 4:13 am, edited 1 time in total.
OpenOffice 4.1.3 on Windows 10
Re: swriter.exe deleted by antivirus, help?
If you still have the folder with the installation files for OpenOffice, you can go in there and double click on the file setup.exe. After a couple of steps through the dialogs, you will reach a place where you can choose to Repair your installation. Try that.
OpenOffice 4.1 on Windows 10 and Linux Mint
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Re: swriter.exe deleted by antivirus, help?
There must be a way to tell your antivirus that a certain program is safe. But may be your antivirus is right! Where did you download your copy of OpenOffice? May be it is not OpenOffice.
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Ubuntu 18.04 with LibreOffice 6.0, latest OpenOffice and LibreOffice
Ubuntu 18.04 with LibreOffice 6.0, latest OpenOffice and LibreOffice
Re: swriter.exe deleted by antivirus, help?
If version 4.1.3 was recently downloaded and installed, then it probably didn't come from the official OpenOffice download site. The current version is 4.1.6.
AOO 4.1.14 on Ubuntu MATE 22.04
Re: swriter.exe deleted by antivirus, help?
The only official download site is http://www.openoffice.org/download/ - which is linked from the bottom of forum pages under Get OpenOffice
Cheers
David
OS - Slackware 15 64 bit
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15
LibreOffice 24.2.1.2; SlackBuild for 24.2.1 by Eric Hameleers
David
OS - Slackware 15 64 bit
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15
LibreOffice 24.2.1.2; SlackBuild for 24.2.1 by Eric Hameleers
Re: swriter.exe deleted by antivirus, help?
Thanks all, I updated it to 4.1.6 and that fixed everything!
OpenOffice 4.1.3 on Windows 10