Outlook attempting to access COM component 'Outlook.Application.11'

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Darren Mease

Hi,

I am running HIPS software, and am getting a lot of complaints when I
attempt to copy and paste sections of emails into other mails and copying
from email sections to another program.
I cannot find any information that makes sense to me (lots of stuff on
'InvokeVerb2 method' etc) hmmm.

Could anybody advise when this particular action happens and if it is only
linked to copying and pasting (could it be used in any way by viruses, worms
etc?)

Any help appreciated.
 
Darren Mease said:
I am running HIPS software,
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Care to define what this is and what it's supposed to do for Outlook? Care
to state your Outlook version and account type(s)? Care to post the exact
text of any of the error messages?
 
Apologies,
Host Intrusion Prevention System. This doesnt do anything for outlook, it
monitors the host for any suspicious activity such as processes attempting
to write to suspicious registry entries, trying to access files in system
folders, trying to make outbound connections etc.
The message received from this is:

"The process 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE' (as
user <company>\<user>) attempted to access the COM component
'Outlook.Application.11'. The attempted access was to create the component.
The operation was denied and process terminated."

The HIPS sees this as suspicious activity and hence terminated the process
(in this case it was a new message window that I had attempted to paste a
section of another email into)

Version of Outlook: 2003 (11.6359.6408) SP1.
Account type: I am not sure what you mean by this? Protocols used are SMTP
and POP3, but i dont believe that this has any relevance to this issue (I
could be mistaken).

Cheers,
 
Darren Mease said:
Apologies,
Host Intrusion Prevention System. This doesnt do anything for
outlook, it monitors the host for any suspicious activity such as
processes attempting to write to suspicious registry entries, trying
to access files in system folders, trying to make outbound
connections etc. The message received from this is:

"The process 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE'
(as user <company>\<user>) attempted to access the COM component
'Outlook.Application.11'. The attempted access was to create the
component. The operation was denied and process terminated."

The HIPS sees this as suspicious activity and hence terminated the
process (in this case it was a new message window that I had
attempted to paste a section of another email into)
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Sounds like you'd better adust HIPS. This is a perfectly legitimate thing
for Word to do. I don't know if it could be used by viruses ot worms.
Version of Outlook: 2003 (11.6359.6408) SP1.
Account type: I am not sure what you mean by this? Protocols used
are SMTP and POP3, but i dont believe that this has any relevance to
this issue (I could be mistaken).
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I meant what you described: whether it was a POP, HTTP, IMAP, or Exchange
account. I, too, do not believe this is relevant any more.
 
Hi,

Is there anybody out there who can help with the below, or suggest another
relevant news group?

cheers,
 
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