Email address book security

Thanks for reading this postig.

I'm running Outlook 2003 and have recently experienced a new prompt popping
when I compose a new email. The prompt says -

A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook.
Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected it may be a virus etc.....
Allow access for xx minutes

It seemed to conicide with loading the latest release of Adobe Acrobat 6.
I've disabled all the Adobe tool bars etc in Outlook in attempt to stop
this.

Does anyone else experience this? I would to completely turn this off. Is
there a reg key that will stop this?

I'm 100% sure it's not a virus or trojan and it's simply driving me up the
wall!

I believe SP1 or SP2 for Office XP also incorporates this check so I don't
believe it's specifically relevant to Office 2003.

Thanks

RL.

Did you install the beta 2 refresh and are you using BCM? If so that's
a known bug in this version of BCM. If not then uninstall Acrobat
completely and see if that helps.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Lead Author, Professional Outlook 2000 Programming, Wrox Press
Lead Author, Beginning VB 6 Application Development, Wrox Press
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"Rob" <smiley3574@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:#vQtHGHQDHA.3192@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Thanks for reading this postig.
>
> I'm running Outlook 2003 and have recently experienced a new prompt
popping
> when I compose a new email. The prompt says -
>
> A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in
Outlook.
> Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected it may be a virus
etc.....
> Allow access for xx minutes
>
> It seemed to conicide with loading the latest release of Adobe
Acrobat 6.
> I've disabled all the Adobe tool bars etc in Outlook in attempt to
stop
> this.
>
> Does anyone else experience this? I would to completely turn this
off. Is
> there a reg key that will stop this?
>
> I'm 100% sure it's not a virus or trojan and it's simply driving me
up the
> wall!
>
> I believe SP1 or SP2 for Office XP also incorporates this check so I
don't
> believe it's specifically relevant to Office 2003.
>
> Thanks
>
> RL.
>
>

Hi NG!

Regarding this issue I have the same problem I'm developping some apps for
outlook and I was using the OOM for looping trough my 3000 contacts but as
you probably know it leaks a lot of memory when you do that as I found in
this news group I can use CDO 1.2.1 to do this much faster and with a lot
less memory leak. My problem is the following in OOM as long as I don't
touch the email property of each contacts there's no security popups in CDO
unfortunately as soon as I hit a folder with contacts in it i get the popup
I tryed to use the sendkeys method unfortunately it doesn't seem to work.

Here's my code:
----------8<---------------------------------
Private sub test()
m_DefaultProfile = GetProfile()
On Error Resume Next
Dim str As New StringBuilder
m_CdoSession.Logon(m_DefaultProfile)
SendKeys.Send("%T{TAB}{DOWN 3}{TAB}~")
Dim fols As MAPI.Folders
Dim cdoFol As MAPI.Folder =
m_CdoSession.GetDefaultFolder(CdoDefaultFolderContacts)
' I get the popup here!
'
' There's some other code in there
'
m_CdoSesison.Logoff()
End Sub
----------8<---------------------------------

So I went to Sue's site (which is great btw! keep up the good work!) looking
for the sendkeys sampe as she states below but can't find it. Does anyone
have any idea of how i can get around this? I would like to use as less as
posisble third party tools such as Redemption or ClickYes and my C++ isn't
very good anymore (it's been a few years since I wrote a line of C++).

Thanks...


Marc-andre Poupier, MCSE,MCT,CCNA
mapoupier@maximiz.com



"Sue Mosher [MVP]" <suemvp@slipstick.com> wrote in message
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The security dialogs that pop up when an application tries to access certain
Outlook properties and methods are designed to inhibit the spread of viruses
via Outlook; see http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm#autosec. If you
are a standalone user, Outlook provides no way to suppress this behavior.
However, you can use a free tool called Express ClickYes
(http://www.express-soft.com/mailmate/clickyes.html) to click the security
dialog buttons automatically. Beware that this means if a virus tries to
send mail using Outlook or gain access to your address book, it will
succeed.

If you're the administrator in an Exchange Server environment, you can
reduce the impact of the security prompts with administrative tools. See
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/admin.htm

If it's an application you wrote yourself, you can use one of these
approaches to redo the program:

-- Use Extended MAPI (see http://www.slipstick.com/dev/mapi.htm) and C++
or Delphi; this is the most secure method and the only one that Microsoft
recommendeds.

-- Use Redemption (http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/), a third-party
COM library that wraps around Extended MAPI but parallels the Outlook Object
Model

-- Use SendKeys to "click" the buttons on the security dialogs that your
application may trigger. See
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm#autosec for a link to sample
code.

-- Program the free Express ClickYes
(http://www.express-soft.com/mailmate/clickyes.html) tool to start suspended
and turn it on only when your program needs to have the buttons clicked
automatically.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.slipstick.com/books/jumpstart.htm


"Rob" <smiley3574@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23vQtHGHQDHA.3192@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Thanks for reading this postig.
>
> I'm running Outlook 2003 and have recently experienced a new prompt
popping
> when I compose a new email. The prompt says -
>
> A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook.
> Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected it may be a virus
etc.....
> Allow access for xx minutes
>
> It seemed to conicide with loading the latest release of Adobe Acrobat 6.
> I've disabled all the Adobe tool bars etc in Outlook in attempt to stop
> this.
>
> Does anyone else experience this? I would to completely turn this off.
Is
> there a reg key that will stop this?
>
> I'm 100% sure it's not a virus or trojan and it's simply driving me up the
> wall!
>
> I believe SP1 or SP2 for Office XP also incorporates this check so I don't
> believe it's specifically relevant to Office 2003.
>
> Thanks
>
> RL.
>
>