Allow Outlook to access its Address Book Without a Warning

[Greg Carter]

I am aware of the fact that the warning "A program is trying to access your
Address Book" is a security feature. What I don't understand is why this
warning comes up with it is only OUTLOOK that is trying to access its own
Address Book...at least that seems to be the situation. Now, if there is
something out there (and I am pretty good at protecting my machine and
cleaning it is anything gets through) that is in fact trying to access the
Address Book, then I can see the value. The fact is, though, that the only
time this comes up is when I select "New Message" or "Forward" or
"Reply/Reply to All" from within the Outlook mail folders.

My suggestion is this: Make this warning like the ones you get for
Microsoft Anti-Spyware. When a box pops up and asks me to Allow or Deny a
change, my answer is remember and honored; in other words, I don't get asked
the same question over and over and over and over again.

So, you might say, what if there is a spy/virus/malware that is actually
trying to access my Address Book and I should be concerned? Well, that is
simple: as does the Anti-Spyware application, TELL ME which application is
trying to access it. I can then put it on a list of applications that I do
NOT want to have access to the Address Book.

So, in summary, I would like Microsoft Developers to create an Allow/Deny
register relative to this security warning so it doesn't pop up each and
every time I want to create a New Message. This is annoying and time
consuming.

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[neo [mvp outlook]]

Sounds like you might have a third party program like Adobe Acrobat 6.0/7.0
(not the reader but the full blown thing that lets you create PDFs)
installed. Programs like these will trigger the security prompts. If my
guess is right about Adobe Acrobat, then you would have to disable the
PDFMaker addin from running in Outlook. In any event, take a peek at
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2002sp3.htm#problems because here is just
a sampling of what programs can trigger the security blocks.

 

[Greg Carter]

You were exactly right - it was Adobe Acrobat 6.0 - and the fix worked.
Thanks so much -- I've been wanting to get rid of this for many months.

THanks!