New security feature(?) with an automatic mailing

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I have recently upgraded to Outlook 2003 and have discovered a problem with another program I run

I have been running an Excel macro that is set up to run completely automatically daily. It opens and closes by itself using the scheduler option in Windows, since I am not always at my computer during the time it needs to run. Basically, it creates a file, saves it, and e-mails it to my boss. The problem I'm now having is that in the middle of running, an error message from Outlook pops up telling me an outside program is requesting access to my Address Book, and do I wish to allow this? I have to then click "yes" for it to continue. I'm assuming this is a new anti-virus feature that would prevent an e-mail virus from propagating itself, but it is causing some problems for me
1. The program is no longer automatic. Someone has to be there to click "yes" when prompted
2. Clicking on anything while the macro is running causes the whole thing to crash

This confuses me a little, because the program shouldn't need access to the Address Book, the complete address is written out in the macro. Any ideas? Can I disable this security feature somehow? Can Outlook 2003 not be used for automatic mailings of this type?
 
In the Office 2003 client, some changes were made to the security settings
that now cause outlook to provide the prompt "Error: A program is trying to
access an e-mail address you have stored in Outlook. If this is unexpected,
you should choose no." This will also be the expected behavior in older
versions as new SP's are applied.



http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;290499


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~jason k


K Hofer said:
I have recently upgraded to Outlook 2003 and have discovered a problem with another program I run.

I have been running an Excel macro that is set up to run completely
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automatically daily. It opens and closes by itself using the scheduler
option in Windows, since I am not always at my computer during the time it
needs to run. Basically, it creates a file, saves it, and e-mails it to my
boss. The problem I'm now having is that in the middle of running, an error
message from Outlook pops up telling me an outside program is requesting
access to my Address Book, and do I wish to allow this? I have to then
click "yes" for it to continue. I'm assuming this is a new anti-virus
feature that would prevent an e-mail virus from propagating itself, but it
is causing some problems for me:
1. The program is no longer automatic. Someone has to be there to click "yes" when prompted.
2. Clicking on anything while the macro is running causes the whole thing to crash.

This confuses me a little, because the program shouldn't need access to
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the Address Book, the complete address is written out in the macro. Any
ideas? Can I disable this security feature somehow? Can Outlook 2003 not
be used for automatic mailings of this type?
 
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