Bluetooth Interfering with Office - Removing a Menu Item

[Bill]

Ever since I installed my D-Link Bluetooth adapter, whenever I start a Microsoft Office
application, my firewall pops up with an alert that there is communication on Port 37926
with UDP. The remote address listed is 127.0.0.1 (which is, of course, the local IP of
my computer). 37926 is supposed to be in the range of unused ports. When I allow
port communication, my computer crashes (firewall logs show it crashes my firewall.

After several unsuccessful attempts at resolving the problem with D-Link, I've traced
the problem to a context menu item that the software adds to Microsoft Office.

Using Microsoft Word as an example: when I go to "File > Send To", there is a Bluetooth
entry.

Now, I've tried going into Customize menus, and deleting the menu entry, but the entry
comes up again when I restart Word. I've searched all the Word macros (my Macro security
is set to High), to no avail; and the only COM add-in is Web Page Wizard.

After doing a Google, I see that this is firewall independent and that no solution is
evident.

So, my question is,

*** HOW does Bluetooth add this menu item to Office, and how do I remove it? ***

(as an added question - is there a way to protect Office from having applications
install add-ins and Macros???)

Thanks!

Bill.

 

[Brian R]

Bill,

I had similar experiences with a dongle sold by O2 (manufactured? by CSR -
Cambridge Software Radios Ltd.). All my Office products suddenly started
accessing the internet on start-up. After a LOT of work (and lost sleep) your
post gave me the vital clue that I needed to resolve my problem.

Worryingly, they were doing a DNS lookup for a collection of IP addresses -
which "Sam Spade" ultimately traced back to "probably bogus".

The Blueototh software that came with the dongle was WidComm. Once I
uninstalled that, the problem disappeared. To my delight, I then found that
this software was totally unnecessary as the standard MS BlueTooth drivers
plus Nokia's PC Suite gave me all the necessary access to my phone.

Sorry that all of this is not much use to you, but I added it in case it's
useful to someone else and, more importantly, to express my gratitude to you
for a solution to a problem that had me tearing my hair out.

Regards,
Brian.

 

[Brian R]

Bill,

I had similar experiences with a dongle sold by O2 (manufactured? by CSR -
Cambridge Software Radios Ltd.). All my Office products suddenly started
accessing the internet on start-up. After a LOT of work (and lost sleep) your
post gave me the vital clue that I needed to resolve my problem.

Worryingly, they were doing a DNS lookup for a collection of IP addresses -
which "Sam Spade" ultimately traced back to "probably bogus".

The Blueototh software that came with the dongle was WidComm. Once I
uninstalled that, the problem disappeared. To my delight, I then found that
this software was totally unnecessary as the standard MS BlueTooth drivers
plus Nokia's PC Suite gave me all the necessary access to my phone.

Sorry that all of this is not much use to you, but I added it in case it's
useful to someone else and, more importantly, to express my gratitude to you
for a solution to a problem that had me tearing my hair out.

Regards,
Brian.

 

[Brian R]

Bill,

I had similar experiences with a dongle sold by O2 (manufactured? by CSR -
Cambridge Software Radios Ltd.). All my Office products suddenly started
accessing the internet on start-up. After a LOT of work (and lost sleep) your
post gave me the vital clue that I needed to resolve my problem.

Worryingly, they were doing a DNS lookup for a collection of IP addresses -
which "Sam Spade" ultimately traced back to "probably bogus".

The Blueototh software that came with the dongle was WidComm. Once I
uninstalled that, the problem disappeared. To my delight, I then found that
this software was totally unnecessary as the standard MS BlueTooth drivers
plus Nokia's PC Suite gave me all the necessary access to my phone.

Sorry that all of this is not much use to you, but I added it in case it's
useful to someone else and, more importantly, to express my gratitude to you
for a solution to a problem that had me tearing my hair out.

Regards,
Brian.

 

[Brian R]

Bill,

I had similar experiences with a dongle sold by O2 (manufactured? by CSR -
Cambridge Software Radios Ltd.). All my Office products suddenly started
accessing the internet on start-up. After a LOT of work (and lost sleep) your
post gave me the vital clue that I needed to resolve my problem.

Worryingly, they were doing a DNS lookup for a collection of IP addresses -
which "Sam Spade" ultimately traced back to "probably bogus".

The Blueototh software that came with the dongle was WidComm. Once I
uninstalled that, the problem disappeared. To my delight, I then found that
this software was totally unnecessary as the standard MS BlueTooth drivers
plus Nokia's PC Suite gave me all the necessary access to my phone.

Sorry that all of this is not much use to you, but I added it in case it's
useful to someone else and, more importantly, to express my gratitude to you
for a solution to a problem that had me tearing my hair out.

Regards,
Brian.

 

[Brian R]

Bill,

I had similar experiences with a dongle sold by O2 (manufactured? by CSR -
Cambridge Software Radios Ltd.). All my Office products suddenly started
accessing the internet on start-up. After a LOT of work (and lost sleep) your
post gave me the vital clue that I needed to resolve my problem.

Worryingly, they were doing a DNS lookup for a collection of IP addresses -
which "Sam Spade" ultimately traced back to "probably bogus".

The Blueototh software that came with the dongle was WidComm. Once I
uninstalled that, the problem disappeared. To my delight, I then found that
this software was totally unnecessary as the standard MS BlueTooth drivers
plus Nokia's PC Suite gave me all the necessary access to my phone.

Sorry that all of this is not much use to you, but I added it in case it's
useful to someone else and, more importantly, to express my gratitude to you
for a solution to a problem that had me tearing my hair out.

Regards,
Brian.

 

[Brian R]

Bill,

I had similar experiences with a dongle sold by O2 (manufactured? by CSR -
Cambridge Software Radios Ltd.). All my Office products suddenly started
accessing the internet on start-up. After a LOT of work (and lost sleep) your
post gave me the vital clue that I needed to resolve my problem.

Worryingly, they were doing a DNS lookup for a collection of IP addresses -
which "Sam Spade" ultimately traced back to "probably bogus".

The Blueototh software that came with the dongle was WidComm. Once I
uninstalled that, the problem disappeared. To my delight, I then found that
this software was totally unnecessary as the standard MS BlueTooth drivers
plus Nokia's PC Suite gave me all the necessary access to my phone.

Sorry that all of this is not much use to you, but I added it in case it's
useful to someone else and, more importantly, to express my gratitude to you
for a solution to a problem that had me tearing my hair out.

Regards,
Brian.

 

[Brian R]

Bill,

I had similar experiences with a dongle sold by O2 (manufactured? by CSR -
Cambridge Software Radios Ltd.). All my Office products suddenly started
accessing the internet on start-up. After a LOT of work (and lost sleep) your
post gave me the vital clue that I needed to resolve my problem.

Worryingly, they were doing a DNS lookup for a collection of IP addresses -
which "Sam Spade" ultimately traced back to "probably bogus".

The Blueototh software that came with the dongle was WidComm. Once I
uninstalled that, the problem disappeared. To my delight, I then found that
this software was totally unnecessary as the standard MS BlueTooth drivers
plus Nokia's PC Suite gave me all the necessary access to my phone.

Sorry that all of this is not much use to you, but I added it in case it's
useful to someone else and, more importantly, to express my gratitude to you
for a solution to a problem that had me tearing my hair out.

Regards,
Brian.

 

[Brian R]

Bill,

I had similar experiences with a dongle sold by O2 (manufactured? by CSR -
Cambridge Software Radios Ltd.). All my Office products suddenly started
accessing the internet on start-up. After a LOT of work (and lost sleep) your
post gave me the vital clue that I needed to resolve my problem.

Worryingly, they were doing a DNS lookup for a collection of IP addresses -
which "Sam Spade" ultimately traced back to "probably bogus".

The Blueototh software that came with the dongle was WidComm. Once I
uninstalled that, the problem disappeared. To my delight, I then found that
this software was totally unnecessary as the standard MS BlueTooth drivers
plus Nokia's PC Suite gave me all the necessary access to my phone.

Sorry that all of this is not much use to you, but I added it in case it's
useful to someone else and, more importantly, to express my gratitude to you
for a solution to a problem that had me tearing my hair out.

Regards,
Brian.