Program trying to access e-mail addresses

[Tod Bloxham]

Everytime I open up my email fresh (for the first time),
I get a warning that "A program is trying to access e-
mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want
to allow this?" I select no numerous times (the message
keeps popping up) and then Outlook locks up. I can
then "End Task" Outlook, restart it and use it, however
it then is unstable and I have trouble shutting down my
computer.

I have been unable to track down what program or service
is trying to access my e-mail addresses. I have Norton
Antivirus/Internet Security 2004. It is updated and
unable to track down any problems. I have gone through
my system with Spybot and Ad-Aware to help clean things
out. I have gone through all the processes listed in my
Windows Task Manager and all programs running are legit.

I can't seem to figure out what is causing Outlook to
give me the warning described and create problems.

Can anyone help?

Tod Bloxham

 

[leskiepie]

I ran into this when I upgraded to Outlook 2003. There is
a built in security function. I'm guessing your pda is
causing this error because it needs to query your
addressbook/contacts.

If it's a palm issue, I have a patch for that. Email me
directly for it.

If it's another program, ie...word, etc...then you have to
allow the program to run it's course through. No patch for
that. It's microsoft!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2002sp3.htm#problems . If you have
the PDFMaker add-in installed, you will want to follow the instructions to
disable its Outlook component.

 

[Brian Tillman]

If it's another program, ie...word, etc...then you have to
allow the program to run it's course through. No patch for
that. It's microsoft!

That's simply untrue. The cause would be an add-in from someone other than
Microsoft that ties into Outlook; Adobe's PDFMaker in Acrobat is one such.
The OP needs to disable the add-in.