Outlook 2003 signature "blob"

[StainlessSteelRat]

Hi folks,

I am using Outlook 2003 on Win XP.

I have Outlook configured to send HTML emails, and have created a signature.
The signature is automatically inserted on new emails.

Initially I got a warning that there was an ActiveX component in my
signature (and hence new emails), which it refused to show. But I got around
this by changing the security settings.

Whatever this ActiveX component is, it appears to be a grey square with a
black border at the top of my signature. It's not present in the signature I
created, yet appears in the email. I can take a screen capture of this and
provide a link if anyone needs to see it.

Can anyone tell me what this is, and how I get rid of it?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

It sounds like an embedded image. Not sure how it got there, I would lean
towards spyware or virus but don't do anything drastic as it is probably
something else.

Turn off word as the email editor and create a new signature to see if it
does the same thing

 

[StainlessSteelRat]

It sounds like an embedded image. Not sure how it got there, I would lean

towards spyware or virus but don't do anything drastic as it is probably
something else.

It shouldn't be, as this PC is clean. It just seems to appear with new
messages.

Turn off word as the email editor and create a new signature to see if it
does the same thing

Word was already set not to be the editor, but I switched to using RTF
instead of HTML as preferred message format and it's gone. It doesn't matter
much to me what format I use.