Outlook security message

[Donna YaWanna]

I have a PC running a home grown program that, after it does it's real work,
sends out an email to let people know it's done. I had to reinstall Windows
2000 on the PC and now I get a message when the program tries to send email.
"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 and you
should choose "No". Then there's a checkbox and it asks how many minutes to
allow this.
Here's a link I found at Microsoft:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011127891033.aspx
I have other PCs that run similar programs andthey don't get this message.
How can I make it stop appearing? I didn't write the program and we have
nobody who supports it right now so changing the program is NOT an option.
I'm using Outlook 2002 SP3.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

More than likely your other PCs are not running SP3. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sec.htm for your options with regard to the "object model guard" security in Outlook 2000 SP2 and later versions.


--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Donna YaWanna]

They are all on SP3.


More than likely your other PCs are not running SP3. See
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sec.htm for your options with regard to the
"object model guard" security in Outlook 2000 SP2 and later versions.


--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Then "similar programs" means that the one is running code that the others aren't. The page I suggested applies in any case.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Donna YaWanna]

I'm no programmer and this web page appears to be about how i can re-write
the code. Changing the program is NOT an option. Does anybody know a way
around this? All my PCs run the same version of all software so there must
be some kind of registry setting that's different. Or INI file or
something. I'm not a PC guru, I just need help from one.
Thanks

Then "similar programs" means that the one is running code that the others
aren't. The page I suggested applies in any case.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Read on. There are a number of other options besides rewriting your code, although that is the best solution. There is no magic registry setting or .ini file.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Donna YaWanna]

I see an option to install something that answers the prompt. I can't do
that, my security folks wouldn't let me install something like that. The
rest of that page means nothing to me - way over my head.

Let me rephrase my request. Does anybody know how I can determine what it
is about the other PCs that allows them to run without getting this prompt?
ALL software is same version, same service pack. So what might be different?



Read on. There are a number of other options besides rewriting your code,
although that is the best solution. There is no magic registry setting or
..ini file.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Have you checked with your folks who installed the software to see what the
differences may be?

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After furious head scratching, Donna YaWanna asked:

| I see an option to install something that answers the prompt. I can't
| do that, my security folks wouldn't let me install something like
| that. The rest of that page means nothing to me - way over my head.
|
| Let me rephrase my request. Does anybody know how I can determine
| what it is about the other PCs that allows them to run without
| getting this prompt? ALL software is same version, same service pack.
| So what might be different?
|
|
|
| | Read on. There are a number of other options besides rewriting your
| code, although that is the best solution. There is no magic registry
| setting or .ini file.
|
|
| || I'm no programmer and this web page appears to be about how i can
|| re-write the code. Changing the program is NOT an option. Does
|| anybody know a way around this? All my PCs run the same version of
|| all software so there must be some kind of registry setting that's
|| different. Or INI file or something. I'm not a PC guru, I just need
|| help from one.
|| Thanks
||
|| || Then "similar programs" means that the one is running code that the
|| others aren't. The page I suggested applies in any case.
|
||
|| ||| They are all on SP3.
|||
|||
||| ||| More than likely your other PCs are not running SP3. See
||| http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sec.htm for your options with regard
||| to the "object model guard" security in Outlook 2000 SP2 and later
||| versions.
|||
||| |||| I have a PC running a home grown program that, after it does it's
|||| real work, sends out an email to let people know it's done. I had
|||| to reinstall Windows 2000 on the PC and now I get a message when
|||| the program tries to send email. "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 and you should
|||| choose "No". Then there's a checkbox and it asks how many minutes
|||| to allow this.
|||| Here's a link I found at Microsoft:
|||| http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011127891033.aspx
|||| I have other PCs that run similar programs andthey don't get this
|||| message. How can I make it stop appearing? I didn't write the
|||| program and we have nobody who supports it right now so changing
|||| the program is NOT an option. I'm using Outlook 2002 SP3.

 

[Frank Strohmeyer]

Am Thu, 1 Sep 2005 09:53:30 -0500 schrieb Donna YaWanna:

I have a PC running a home grown program that, after it does it's real work,
sends out an email to let people know it's done. I had to reinstall Windows
2000 on the PC and now I get a message when the program tries to send email.
"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 and you
should choose "No". Then there's a checkbox and it asks how many minutes to
allow this.
Here's a link I found at Microsoft:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011127891033.aspx
I have other PCs that run similar programs andthey don't get this message.
How can I make it stop appearing? I didn't write the program and we have
nobody who supports it right now so changing the program is NOT an option.
I'm using Outlook 2002 SP3.

use this http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/security/

 

[Idaurme]

I have had the same problem and I have found a a KB article that might help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838871/