Outlook 2002 - A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook.

Thank you, but I don't see anything there.  If I hit Alt+F11 when the pop-up warning is on the screen, nothing happpens.  If I clear the pop-up warning and hit Alt+11, MS Visual Basic opens, but appeart to be a blank project (I don't know much about MS Visual Basic - the tree in the Project window on the left has Project 1, which contains Microsoft Outlook Objects, which contains ThisOutlookSession - nothing appears in the main window.  I checked out the tools at the link posted, but nothing seemed to be the answer.

Try this article

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;262631

Hi dffdff,

This is one way : http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/

or use clickyes

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/MS_Office/Outlook/Q_20678173.html

SR..

The last message on at the link provided by Sunray,
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/MS_Office/Outlook/Q_20678173.html
sheds some light on my problem.  It says:

When ever i click on "new Message" tab  i get a popup saying "A program is trying to access email addresses you have stored in outlook. Do you want to allow this"  I tried to change to the setting in Tools->options->mail format  unchecked the "use microsoft word as email editor" option and it worked.  But then what if user want to use this option.  I am looking for a exact cause of this problem  Please Help

I tried the same thing.  When I uncheck the "Use Microsoft Word as email editor" option, I no longer get the popup warning.  But I do prefer to retain the Microsoft Word as email editor option.  Do you know any way I can do this and still get rid of the popup warning?

Thanks.

I see most of the time (almost always) click yes has been used to solve this nasty security warning.. Have you tried that yet ?

SR

Clicking "Yes" does seem to alleviate the problem for as long as Outlook is open.  If I shutdown the computer, or even close and reopen Outlook, I get the warning again.  Perhaps this is as good as it's going to get though.  It's really just one of those things that gets on my nerves in a nagging sort of way.

Check this out from a Microsoft Article:

Security warning about accessing the Address Book
Outlook 2002 generates the following security warning if a custom solution programmatically accesses the body or the notes of an item:

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 you should choose "No".
If you click Yes, you receive the following message:

A program is trying to automatically send e-mail on your behalf. Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected, it may be a virus and you should choose "No".
This issue occurs when the Body, the HTMLBody, the WordEditor, or the HTMLEditor properties in the Outlook object library are used.

This security warning is designed to prevent malicious code from extracting e-mail addresses from the body of an e-mail message. This security message was first included in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, but it has been added to Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to additionally reduce the chance of malicious code being able to access e-mail addresses. The following programs are known to be affected by this change:
IHateSpam
SpamNet
Norton
AntiSpam
HotBar
Smiley Central
ActiveX programs for Palm Pilot software Palm's Hotsync v4.1.0
NewsGator Acrobat add-in for Word Incredimail for Outlook plug-in Cloudmark

Do you use any of the above?  You might want to check and see what Addins you have installed.  You can do this by going into outlook and going to tools, options, other tab, advanced options....  Then look in both Addin Manager and Comm Addins.  If there's anything 3rd party (non-microsoft), try unchecking it and restarting outlook, then test by making Word the email editor again.

Mark

Here's the whole article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;838871

Mark,

Thanks for the great explanation.  From all I've read, I assumed I was getting this message as a result of a security function in SP3, but it is one of those disconcerting messages that makes you think your computer is under attack.  

I do use Norton Anitivirus and Norton Internet Security.  I checked in Addin Manager and Comm Addins.  There was only one thing in either list.  It was "Exchange Extensions property pages" in the Addin Manager.  

So is there anyway of getting rid of it without uninstalling/reinstalling Office and not including SP3?  If I were to do this, is there anything in SP3 that I would regret not having installed from a security standpoint, or otherwise?

Thanks for your help.

I don't know of any other way to get rid of SP3 but to uninstall and reinstall Office.  If you are worried about your Office/Outlook settings, don't worry, they'll still be intact after the uninstall and reinstall.  I personally wouldn't be too concerned about not having SP3 installed.  You can still go to the office update site and get the individual security updates (accept for the ones that require SP3.. ;) ...)  Anyways, this shouldn't be affecting you like this, regardless of having SP3 installed.  Something that has to do with both Word and Outlook is causing this.  I am thinking there's a macro or a 3rd party program that is causing this, even though you didn't have anything in the Addins.  What version of windows are you running?

Mark

Mark,

I'm using Windows XP Pro and Microsoft Outlook 2002/Microsoft Word 2002.

Dave

You might try using the "msconfig" utility to disable some of the startup group items and 3rd party services.  Check out this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310560

Hope this helps.  I won't be back on EE until sometime tomorrow.  Thanks.

Mark