Something is fondling my address book

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I keep getting this annoying warning that a program is trying to look at my address book. I have two choices. The first is to ignore it and the other is to let it. If I press either the warning will appear between a minute or an hour later. It is no
1. Firewall (turned it off
2. Norton (ditto
3. Ad ware (got rid of all of that
4. Trojan horse (ditto
Sometimes the fault appears even when office outlook is not running
As a feature it is useless as i spend too much time shutting down the window. Is there a fault here? Is there a patch? Or is there anyway to shut it dow
 
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I keep getting this annoying warning that a program is
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trying to look at my address book. I have two choices.
The first is to ignore it and the other is to let it. If
I press either the warning will appear between a minute or
an hour later. It is not
1. Firewall (turned it off)
2. Norton (ditto)
3. Ad ware (got rid of all of that)
4. Trojan horse (ditto)
Sometimes the fault appears even when office outlook is not running.
As a feature it is useless as i spend too much time
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shutting down the window. Is there a fault here? Is there
a patch? Or is there anyway to shut it down
.
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You installed OfficeXP SP3, didn't you? Or are you running
Office2003? No matter, it's ms's excellent security
update. Yes a virus could be trying to access your address
book, but more than likely your MS word editor is trying
to access it. I guess outlook doesn't trust word.
check this out:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2002sp3.htm#problems
Read about the SP3 changes here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832671
You may also want to try the office newsgroup:
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx
 
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