ActiveX control being added to outgoing e-mail?

[John Munsey Jr.]

I have a user running Outlook 2003 via Exchange 2000.
All outgoing messages sent by his system apparently have
an ActiveX control in them.

Any messages I try to open on another machine give the
alert "Your current Security settings prohibit running
ActiveX controls..."

Could this mean the user has a virus? Something else?

Any help is appreciated, and a direct reply to me is
appreciated as well.

Thanks,

John M

 

[Megan]

John discovered this was due to bad signature or
stationary files in Outlook.

I had the same problem with a user and tested this
theory. There was indeed some corruption in one of the
user's signature files. Deleting and re-creating both
signature files corrected the behavior.

How to:
In Outlook, go into the Tools menu.
Go into Options and choose the Mail Format tab.
Within this window, you can control your signatures and
stationary.
You can delete and recreate signatures by clicking on the
Signatures button at the bottom of the window. The rest
is self-explanatory.