Modifying or disabling Outlook 2002 SP3 security warnings.

Posted in: darrelrussell.com edit
08 Jan 2009
  • I use cloudmark spamnet and recently upgraded to Outlook 2002 SP3. Spamnet is amazing at filtering all my spam, but now I get the following error whenever it runs: "A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this?" And then it lets me click Yes, No, or allow access for 1, 2, 5, or 10 minutes. I would like to either temporarily disable these warnings until cloudmark comes up with a better fix, or modify the dialog so I can select 99,999 minutes and I won't have to click this more than once a day. I don't want to remove SP3, but if there was a registry setting I could add to disable these or something along those lines that would be great. I don't want to lower ALL my outlook security though as that would obviously pose other problems, I just don't want this one dialog.


  • davious-ga: Unfortunately, the security confirmation dialog box is embedded within Outlook, and cannot be disabled using a registry key change. Microsoft introduced this enhancement in Outlook 2000 SP1 with SR1, as a response to the plague of mass-mailing worms that appeared a few years ago. Since then, of course, worm-writers have gotten smarter, meaning that most of the time this security dialog causes mostly annoyance for the user, with minimal enhancement to actual security. While there are suggested work-arounds involving restoring older versions of some files for Outlook 2000, this does not apply to Outlook 2002. Instead, there is a free, third-party software aide that can help relieve the annoyance part of this problem for you: Express ClickYes - a program to solve Outlook's Security Guard Problems http://www.express-soft.com/mailmate/clickyes.html In my own testing, this works for Outlook 2002 SP3. I hope it works for you as well! Regards, aht-ga Google Answers Researcher


  • davious-ga: After further testing of Outlook 2002 SP3, I've noticed that MS has introduced yet another unexpected 'feature'. For anyone who uses MS Word as their default e-mail editor (and since that's the default setting for anyone installing MS Office, there's a lot of people that are affected by this), there is a high likelihood that Outlook now sees MS Word as a foreign program. That means that every time an affected person clicks on the New Message button, this security pop-up appears. Fortunately, the freeware app I have directed you to, handles this without any problems. So, until MS fixes their latest unexpected 'feature', anyone using the ClickYes application will have one less thing to annoy them. Regards, aht-ga Google Answers Researcher







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