Outlook 2003 and Security

[Jonathan]

I have a new work PC running Windows XP SP2 and office SP2. When I configured
Outlook to use Word 2003 ("Use Microsoft Word to edit e-mail messages" and
"Use Microsoft Word to read Rich Plain Text e-mail messages") for the editor
and I create or edit certain emails I get an error message:-

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

The old and new machines ran the same version of XP and office worked fine,
so there must be some way to make Word a trusted application in Outlook?

Can you help?

Thanks

Jonathan.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I have a new work PC running Windows XP SP2 and office SP2. When I
configured
Outlook to use Word 2003 ("Use Microsoft Word to edit e-mail messages" and
"Use Microsoft Word to read Rich Plain Text e-mail messages") for the
editor
and I create or edit certain emails I get an error message:-

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

The old and new machines ran the same version of XP and office worked
fine,
so there must be some way to make Word a trusted application in Outlook?

Sounds like you have a Word add-in that's not written properly and so
triggers the Outlook Object Model Guard. See this for more information:
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=52

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Adobe's PDFMaker is the most common culprit. Try disabling it and other Word
add-ins.

 

[Jonathan]

I have removed all the add-ins (inlcuding the PDFMaker for v6 Acrobat) and
still getting the same message.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Did you remove all add-ins from Outlook or from Word? Try doing both. If that
stops the security prompts, then you can add them back one-by-one.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers