Irritating Message Box every time I try to open the email message.

[s.rajan]

I am using OfficeXP and WindowsXP professional.

Whenever I click on the mail, a textbox gets displayed
with the following message:

A program is trying to access email 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".


This message box has started appearing only after
downloading the Office XP Service Pack 3.

Please help me how to avoid getting this message box
everytime I access my mail

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Are you using Word as the message editor? If you stop, does the message go
away?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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message |I am using OfficeXP and WindowsXP professional.
|
| Whenever I click on the mail, a textbox gets displayed
| with the following message:
|
| A program is trying to access email 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".
|
|
| This message box has started appearing only after
| downloading the Office XP Service Pack 3.
|
| Please help me how to avoid getting this message box
| everytime I access my mail

 

[Gus Rendon]

Actually the problem started happening to us also on all our Office
2003 and Office XP with SP3 machines. The only way we have found to
bypass this problem is to go to Tools/Options/Mail Format and check
the
"Use Microsoft Office Word to edit e-mail address".
"Use Microsoft Office Word to read Rich Text e-mails".

We were getting the warning messages everytime we wrote an e-mail or
sometimes on certain replies also. If anyone knows why this happens
and how to correct it so that we don't have to use Microsoft word,
e-mail me at (e-mail address removed).

In the meantime hope this solves your problem or at least gets rid of
that irritating message.

 

[Guest]

I tried checking and unchecking the 2 boxes to use MS Word"edit email" and "read rich text". Neither action got rid of that annoying popup mesdsage

One more detail, I am using XP with Outlook 2002, and also started getting the error after installing SP3.

bill needs to get this fixed....