Program accessing Outlook addresses warning

[JettaWarrior]

I know this is Monday morning, but...

Upgraded Office XP Friday to SP3. Other than a cursory check, everything seemed fine. Come in this morning to go through my email. Each time I try to reply or forward an email, I get a splash screen telling me that a program is trying to access my addresses and what do I want to do about it (paraphrasing). Thinking I have a virus, I check signatures and scan for a virus. Nothing. Suspicious now that SP3 hosed up my Outlook, using Task Manager I notice that the alert comes up after winword loads (Word is my editor for Outlook). So, I reconfigure Outlook to not use Word as my editor and no more splash screens about virulent programs accessing my addresses. Just for kicks, I reconfigure back to using Word as my editor - no splash screens still. Is it possible that the reconfiguring "fixed" Outlook?

Oh well, just wanted to put this out to see if anyone else has experienced this. Like I said, it is Monday...

 

[TSSTechie]

Howdy,

Completely different problem bur still a problem with Outlook following Office XP SP3 install. Having done the upgrade, I attempted to open Outlook. Got the splash screen and it stayed there so, Ctrl-Alt-Del out of Outlook and tried again, same again. Reboot computer, relaunch Outlook, same problem. In the end, I loaded Outlook in it's Safe Mode which opened fine and, since then, I have had no problems loading as normal.

Is this just coincidence or have Micro$oft stuffed something up in SP3 with regards to upgrading Outlook ??

TSSTechie

May The Force Be With You

 

[JettaWarrior]

Well, this doesn't look good. Outlook is back to giving me the warning about programs access the addreses again (like before). However, unlike yesterday, I can't get the warning to go away except by de-selecting Word as the editor.

TSSTechie, I'm beginning to think something is fishy about SP3 and Outlook. Other posts have complained about various problems. I guess I'll re-install. Thanks, MS, I appreciate the update.

JettaWarrior

 

[JettaWarrior]

Thanks to cjrlauve for finding a solution to the problem, which can be found in the E-Mail Issues forum:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?SQID=806280&SPID=605&page=1

JettaWarrior