Email address book security

[Rob]

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.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

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
Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/attachmentoptions.htm
Extended Reminders
http://www.slovaktech.com/extendedreminders.htm

 

[Ernesto Cuesy]

This behaviour also happens when trying to open an e-mail
message generated by the MS-Project Workgroup feature
(TeamStatus, etc). It is actually stupid that a Microsoft
application warns about a message posted by ANOTHER
Microsoft application. At least the messages and
attachements should be identified and trusted by each
other to avoid this irritating warning message. Come on
Microsoft, you guys could have done a better job.

-----Original Message-----
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.