Outlook SECURITY FAIL

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Harlon

I have Office Professional. Unfortunately, at random
times, I can exit Office, walk away from my desktop and
come back at a later date and time, restart outlook
and...it opens automatically without requiring a password.
When this happens, I have checked the task manager and can
see that Outlook (while not open on the desktop) is still
open as a task in the background. In a few occasions,
there are multiple occurences of Outlook running at one
time...none of which required a login before opening my
personal files.

My settings are all set to require a password upon start
of Outlook. I do not understand why Outlook appears to
randomly stay open although it appears to be closed and
yet when restarting the program, it will open back up
without requiring a password. This means, it is possible
that someone could walk up to my computer and open outlook
and have access to my files -- even though it is supposed
to provide a login protection.

Does anyone have any ideas of how to trace this problem or
report it to microsoft. My version is a full version
distributed via student purchase at Indiana University so
I do not have a support option.

Thank you.

Harlon
 
Another program is probably holding Outlook open -- possibly fax software, PDA sync, others.

A good solution would be to lock your workstation with a password-protected screen saver when you walk away.
--
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
 
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