a program is trying to access...

[Sanford Aranoff]

Bought a new laptop XP Pro

Open Outlook contacts. Popup window: "A program is trying to
access email addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you
want to allow this?" Why is this popping up? How do I get
rid of it?

Thanks.

 

[Bill R]

Determine what is trying to access the Contacts first. That dialogue is a
Security feature to warn you when an application is attempting to access
your address book. Some legitimate applications access the address book but
some viruses also do so to propagate themselves.
Do you have any applications running that might access your address book?
Scan for viruses with an updated virus scanner.

 

[morna]

Determine what is trying to access the Contacts first. That dialogue is a
Security feature to warn you when an application is attempting to access
your address book. Some legitimate applications access the address book but
some viruses also do so to propagate themselves.
Do you have any applications running that might access your address book?







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I have this same issue. I have written an addin the does access
information within Outlook and on my development environment, I turned
this functionality off in the Trust Center, however, once this is
deployed "user" are not going to know how to accomplish this task. Is
there a way to turn off this functionality just for my addin through
C# within the addin?

Thanks for your time.

-Morna

 

[Bill R]

The Outlook programming group is possibly the best place to ask this.
There is some info here that might help:
"Outlook Security Manager"
http://www.add-in-express.com/outlook-security/

Determine what is trying to access the Contacts first. That dialogue is a
Security feature to warn you when an application is attempting to access
your address book. Some legitimate applications access the address book
but
some viruses also do so to propagate themselves.
Do you have any applications running that might access your address book?
Scan for viruses with an updated virus scanner."Sanford Aranoff"







- Show quoted text -

I have this same issue. I have written an addin the does access
information within Outlook and on my development environment, I turned
this functionality off in the Trust Center, however, once this is
deployed "user" are not going to know how to accomplish this task. Is
there a way to turn off this functionality just for my addin through
C# within the addin?

Thanks for your time.

-Morna

 

[AliasJ]

Some apps that access Outlook contact info include iTunes (to sync
Contacts to an iPod) and PDA sync software, like ActiveSync.

Usually high-level software like this won't raise that dialog, though.

You could try to use Task Manager to see if there are any mystery
processes chugging the CPU when this happens.