program is trying to access your Address Book

[Stephen 13]

Why does this message pop up - only started 2 days ago
A program is trying to access your Address Book
A program is trying to access your Address Book or
contacts. Viruses can spread by sending copies of e-mail
messages to people listed in your Address Book. You must
allow or deny access to your Address Book before this
program can continue.

Allow access

Do one or both of the following:

To allow the program access for this instance only (such
as for one contact), click Yes.
To allow unsecured access for a specified time period of
up to 10 minutes, select the Allow Access for check box,
and then click a time period in the list.
Deny access

Click No.

 

[John Jones]

Why does this message pop up - only started 2 days ago

For me, it started when I applied an MS security patch to Outlook 2K.
It was interfering with my phone synch program and another program, so
I found a little program called Express Click Yes that basicly
overrides the security patch.

 

[Scott L Grimes]

Why does this message pop up - only started 2 days ago
A program is trying to access your Address Book
A program is trying to access your Address Book or
contacts. Viruses can spread by sending copies of e-mail
messages to people listed in your Address Book. You must
allow or deny access to your Address Book before this
program can continue.

Allow access

Do one or both of the following:

To allow the program access for this instance only (such
as for one contact), click Yes.
To allow unsecured access for a specified time period of
up to 10 minutes, select the Allow Access for check box,
and then click a time period in the list.
Deny access

Click No.

This is by design through a recent security fix. The reason for it is
to minimize the amount of spreading mass mailing virus' can do - if
you have no idea what is accessing your address book, deny. If you
know what's accessing your address book (if, for example, you use Word
as your email editor this will pop up anytime you compose a new
message), allow it.

Personally, I just deal with the message - I'd rather be annoyed a
when it does come up (I've disabled Word as my email editor, haven't
seen it since), than me mass spreading virus'. Of course, that's just
me - most folks do use a 3rd party utility to autoclick the "yes" for
them. Hopefully, they won't get infected

best of luck!
Scott L. Grimes