Incorrect format for received calendar requests

[Susan]

All of a sudden, the format changed on the calendar items we received. We are
using Outlook 2007. Instead of being received in an "accept" format and
automatically put into our calendar, we receive the calendar items in this
format:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
METHOD:REPLY
PRODID:Microsoft CDO for Microsoft Exchange VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZIDGMT-05.00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) X-MICROSOFT-CDO-TZID:10
BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:16010101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;WKST=MO;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU
END:STANDARD
BEGINAYLIGHT
DTSTART:16010101T020000
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;WKST=MO;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU
ENDAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20100517T005618Z
DTSTART;TZID="(GMT-05.00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)":20100520T150000
SUMMARY:Accepted: Brett SOL prep Last minute questions for Math
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000A05C549E07D8CA01000000000000000
010000000C59C1B5C56BC0A42827B0C9142CD35EF
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Susan Smith":
MAILTO:[email protected]
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:[email protected]
LOCATION: w/ Mrs. Gorrell
DTEND;TZID="(GMT-05.00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)":20100520T160000 SEQUENCE:0
PRIORITY:5
COMMENT:\N
CLASS:
CREATED:20100517T005720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20100517T121832Z
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:0
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-REPLYTIME:20100517T121832Z
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNERAPPTID:147408858
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTIONISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:REMINDER
TRIGGER;RELATED=STARTT00H15M00S
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Help Please?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

All of a sudden, the format changed on the calendar items we received. We
are
using Outlook 2007. Instead of being received in an "accept" format and
automatically put into our calendar, we receive the calendar items in this
format:

This looks like a perfectly normal vCard file to me, but if you're seeing the
text of the vCard instead of seeing it as an attachments, then this suggests
something is interfering with the proper reception of the Outlook message.
The most frequent cause is an antivirus scanner integrated into Outlook. If
you can, uninstall your AV program and reinstall it without the mail scanning
feature. If you can't, start Outlook in safe mode (hold Ctrl when starting
it) and have the sender of the vCard try resending it to see what happens.