reply button (virus) in outlook express

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Peacekeeper

Usually to reply to a poster i click the reply button then edit the address
to remove no spam additions.

I noticed today that when I did this outlook pops up a mesage saying a
program is trying to access my address book do i want to allow this. Note it
says this may be a virus.

Of course I said no way...

Just wondering if any1 else noticed this as cannot see why outlook express
would require access to my outlook address book for a reply to someone I do
not know. Probably a simple reason.
Peace
 
Peacekeeper said:
Usually to reply to a poster i click the reply button then edit the
address to remove no spam additions.

I noticed today that when I did this outlook pops up a mesage saying a
program is trying to access my address book do i want to allow this.
Note it says this may be a virus.

Of course I said no way...

Just wondering if any1 else noticed this as cannot see why outlook
express would require access to my outlook address book for a reply
to someone I do not know. Probably a simple reason.
Peace
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By chance do you have the setting enabled where it says automatically
insert people I reply to into the address book? Perhaps a recent
Windows Security Update has enabled it.
 
From: "Peacekeeper" <[email protected]>

| Usually to reply to a poster i click the reply button then edit the address
| to remove no spam additions.
|
| I noticed today that when I did this outlook pops up a mesage saying a
| program is trying to access my address book do i want to allow this. Note it
| says this may be a virus.
|
| Of course I said no way...
|
| Just wondering if any1 else noticed this as cannot see why outlook express
| would require access to my outlook address book for a reply to someone I do
| not know. Probably a simple reason.
| Peace
|

Are you sure this is Outlook Express (OE) and not Outlook form the MS Office Suite ?

The reason is you'll get that message *if* you set the Outlook Message Editor to use MS Word
as the email editor rather than Outlook. I have not seen that message in OE so it is
possible that you are infected.

Please reply back with the verification of the email application.
 
David H. Lipman said:
From: "Peacekeeper" <[email protected]>

| Usually to reply to a poster i click the reply button then edit the address
| to remove no spam additions.
|
| I noticed today that when I did this outlook pops up a mesage saying a
| program is trying to access my address book do i want to allow this. Note it
| says this may be a virus.
|
| Of course I said no way...
|
| Just wondering if any1 else noticed this as cannot see why outlook express
| would require access to my outlook address book for a reply to someone I do
| not know. Probably a simple reason.
| Peace
|

Are you sure this is Outlook Express (OE) and not Outlook form the MS Office Suite ?

The reason is you'll get that message *if* you set the Outlook Message Editor to use MS Word
as the email editor rather than Outlook. I have not seen that message in OE so it is
possible that you are infected.

Please reply back with the verification of the email application.
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Re badgolferman's comment Yes I did have that setting set though removing it
and restarting OE I get the same error.

David
I use OE as newsreader and outlook version 2000 sp3 as email client. I do
not have word choosen as editor in outlook.

As this is a corporate PC of a major government department I'd better do
some online scans.

I cannot load my mcafee products I have access to on the PC as we here are a
symantec only site and mcafee will not load if symantec found. Pity....

thanks for your comments
 
From: "Peacekeeper" <[email protected]>

|
| David
| I use OE as newsreader and outlook version 2000 sp3 as email client. I do
| not have word choosen as editor in outlook.
|
| As this is a corporate PC of a major government department I'd better do
| some online scans.
|
| I cannot load my mcafee products I have access to on the PC as we here are a
| symantec only site and mcafee will not load if symantec found. Pity....
|
| thanks for your comments
|

Peacekeeper:

It sounds like you are infected an the malware is trying to access the Oulook 2000 Address
Book !

If you don't receive email from me, please email me. Just remove ~nospam~.
 
David H. Lipman said:
From: "Peacekeeper" <[email protected]>

|
| David
| I use OE as newsreader and outlook version 2000 sp3 as email client. I do
| not have word choosen as editor in outlook.
|
| As this is a corporate PC of a major government department I'd better do
| some online scans.
|
| I cannot load my mcafee products I have access to on the PC as we here are a
| symantec only site and mcafee will not load if symantec found. Pity....
|
| thanks for your comments
|

Peacekeeper:

It sounds like you are infected an the malware is trying to access the Oulook 2000 Address
Book !

If you don't receive email from me, please email me. Just remove ~nospam~.
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Thanks David I am thinking it is our corporate IT guys updating our outlook
to SP3 that I hear in all versions outlook causes that error


see
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2002sp3.htm#problems
and
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;838871

I online scanned with mcafee freescan and found nothing ditto 2 adware
scanners. This is the first time in ages I have tried replying to a
newsgroup post to see the posters email addy

( I needed his contact details as he posted in another forum where he was
worried about a major Pc firm giving out his email addy and I was forwarding
his worries onto that firm as I was a mod for their forums a while back).
Just background info to show I wasnt being nosey...

I know we had a major update to our corporate OS here 1 month ago so maybe
that caused it. Will read your email when i get home...
 
Peacekeeper said:
Usually to reply to a poster i click the reply button then edit the
address to remove no spam additions.

I noticed today that when I did this outlook pops up a mesage saying a
program is trying to access my address book do i want to allow this.
Note it says this may be a virus.

Of course I said no way...

Just wondering if any1 else noticed this as cannot see why outlook
express would require access to my outlook address book for a reply
to someone I do not know. Probably a simple reason.
Peace
Click to expand...

This is a new security warning, (OE trying to access your Outlook Address
book) and is expected behavior. An 'outside' program (OE) wants to look at
your Outlook address book and a security warning is generated. You can
safely answer yes to this box and continue to 'Reply' (via e-mail) to the
newsgroup message.
 
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