Altering Outlook 2002 virus features

[mike]

Hi

I've got a couple of users who just today started getting an erro
screen every time they send an email message via Outlook 2002. Th
screen says the following

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Microsoft Outlook

A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored i
Outlook. Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected, it may b
a virus and you should choose "No"

[] Allow access for [time duration

[Yes] [No] [Help

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Like I said, this just started today and we've done nothing to th
email settings at all. We haven't even installed any patche
recently. I cannot find where to turn off this annoying featur
either. (We have Norton AV Corporate Edition and it's fully up t
date on virus defs, so we're not the least bit suspicious that it's
virus -- and I did check the computers to ensure that they wer
indeed virus free.

I've searched the MSKnowledge Base and the Outlook help files an
cannot find how to fix this. Can you help me out by directing me t
the menu where I can adjust this

Thanks

Michael Gagn

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

This feature cannot be turned off at the client. The behavior can be altered
at the Exchange server level, but that would leave you vulnerable to an
actual virus that targets address books. See
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm#autosec

Something obviously has changed on those users' machines. Either they've
installed a new program, they're running VBA code that accesses an address
property, or there is an undetected virus. You might start by taking
inventory of the Outlook addins installed.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers